Too Precious to Lose Author Event - Detroit

We are delighted to host Jason G. Green here in Detroit to celebrate his book Too Precious to Lose : a Memoir of Family, Community and Possibilty and engage in an rich conversation centered around his memoir.

The event will take at Source Booksellers on Thursday June 25th. The event will include a rich conversation, Q & R section and a book signinin line. Books will be for sell at the bookstore and in a ticket at this link .

We have book free and book tickets at link. Book tickets include a copy of of Too Precious to Lose that can be picked up on the day of the events. All tickets will save you a seat.

About the Book:

A moving and inspiring memoir from a former Obama White House staffer, about his rural Maryland family’s untold history, the merger of three churches—one Black, two white—and how a radical embrace of community became their salvation, and his.

Jason Green was raised on fellowship—literally. Fellowship Lane, the once unpaved road he grew up on, served as a spiritual metaphor throughout his coming of age. A precocious preacher’s kid, Green felt a call to the ministry but ultimately devoted himself to the people in a different way—through public service. After working on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, he spent four and a half years working in the White House as special assistant to President Obama.

However, Green’s government career was cut short by a devastating call that it appeared his ninety-five-year-old grandmother was on her presumptive deathbed. At her side, he listened while she detailed her life story dating back to her 1918 birth in Quince Orchard, a town that no longer exists. He was preoccupied with disbelief; how could he have never known the true legacy of his tiny community? How could a whole town’s existence be erased but for the memory of a few surviving elders? Green’s historical research uncovered a surprising trove of tales about the determination of his newly freed ancestors to build an African American house of worship, and how generations later, on the eve of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, their progeny would be at the center of a brave decision to create an integrated church. Quince Orchard’s lost story is part of what Green calls the texture in the American fabric: the moral leadership of the Black church, the longstanding resilience of the Black community, and the transformative love of the Black family.

Fueled by a new understanding of where he comes from, Green traces one family through a century of life in a single community, asking deeply personal questions about belonging and finding answers from the compassionate, communal-led lives of his forebear

About the Author:

Jason G. Green is a Maryland-born community organizer, attorney, storyteller and entrepreneur. Green served as special assistant to the president, and associate White House Counsel to President Obama, advising on economic and domestic policy matters. Green co-founded SkillSmart, a pioneering company that reshapes how communities measure economic impact, and is CEO of EverGreen Labs, where he supports a host of visionary organizations working to build trust, expand economic opportunity and strengthen community.
Green also serves as trustee to the Pleasant View Historic Association, supports its fundraising campaign to preserve the historic site, and sits on several advisory boards focused on opportunity and innovation. He is a founding commissioner and former chair of the Montgomery County Commission on Remembrance and Reconciliation. His award winning documentary, Finding Fellowship, available on PBS, explores the rich history of Quince Orchard and the fight to preserve its legacy.
A graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and Yale Law School, Green remains rooted in the work of truth and justice, investing in stories that remind us who we are. He currently spits time between Maryland and Dallas, Texas, with his wife Ritu and son Aidan.