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These accounts all have one thing in common: They capture the grit and spirit of adventure that made America what it is today

and manage some difficult feelings

Character Witness Julie Walsh taking the reader through aWhen Jason Brown's mother is arrested for stealing $38,000, he agrees to serve as a character witness for her, hoping to keep her out of prison. Thus begins Character Witness, a memoir, a chronicle of a mother's struggle with mental illness, addiction, and poverty, and an inquiry into whether we can escape the legacy of the past. Brown realizes that his troubles as a young man mirrored his mother's, and as he chronicles how sexual abuse can pass down