From Seed to Tree to Fruit: A Daughter's Memoir of Grief and Healing

In From Seed to Tree to Fruit: A Daughter's Memoir of Grief and Healing, Rebecca Williams Mlynarczyk recalls her childhood as a transplanted Northerner growing up in the segregated South of the 1950s. At the center of the book is her father, Dr. Bert C. Williams, a beloved professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alabama. In 1954, he was hospitalized after suffering a psychotic break at a university committee meeting. Three months later, he died at Bryce Hospi...