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After barely escaping death, one fire fighter struggles through significant injury and loss to hold on to his old identity while embracing an new life-purpose.
"Unfallen Hero" is a story of one man's remarkable faith and courage after the fire that destroyed 33 percent of his body threatened to destroy his career, family, standing in his community, and his sanity. Marvin is an impassioned storyteller, and his collaborator and wife, Valerie Eastman Benton, is a gifted documentarian and writer. Together, they have composed an uplifting, sometimes funny, sometimes painful, always sobering memoir that will challenge readers to live life with the provocative boldness of an unfallen hero.
"Unfallen Hero" is a story of one man's remarkable faith and courage after the fire that destroyed 33 percent of his body threatened to destroy his career, family, standing in his community, and his sanity. Marvin is an impassioned storyteller, and his collaborator and wife, Valerie Eastman Benton, is a gifted documentarian and writer. Together, they have composed an uplifting, sometimes funny, sometimes painful, always sobering memoir that will challenge readers to live life with the provocative boldness of an unfallen hero.
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