Backstory: The Many Lives of Granville Johnson - Hardcoverby Granville Johnson (Author) IN THIS UNFORGETTABLE MEMOIR, author Granville Johnson recounts his roller coaster life growing up in Chicago's Westside ghetto in the 1950s and '60s. Anchored by his mother's love and his own ambition and self assurance, Granville contends with constant trauma, including fluke accidents, illness, the death of loved ones, institutionalized racism, violent gangs, and repeated sexual assault. While the legacy of that sexual