Carson Tinker with Tommy Ford. Nashville: B&H Publishing Group, 2013. 180 pp. (Paperback).
Who in Alabama doesn’t remember April 27, 2011? It is a day that, for this generation, will live in our memories forever. “A Season to Remember” is an account of that day and beyond by Carson Tinker, whose girlfriend was killed as he desperately tried to protect her from the tornado.
Tinker was a football player for The University of Alabama who was living in Tuscaloosa in a house he shared with three other young men when the tornado hit. Heeding frantic warning calls from parents telling them to take cover, the four roommates and Ashley Harrison were taking shelter in a closet when the storm swooped down and sucked them all out of the house as the structure was demolished. The boys survived, battered and bruised. Ashley did not.
“A Season to Remember” would be an interesting story if it was just about the tornado but it doesn’t stop there. What makes it a great story is Tinker’s determination to be a blessing to others — “to live in vision, not circumstance.” Wow. What a message this young man shares in the book.
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