Mary Kratt
Most people would be laid low when an offer to buy their business comes simultaneously with a cancer diagnosis. Not Bruce McIntyre, innovative Charlotte, North Carolina, business owner. Not Joyce, his wife, who stuck it out during the worst-case scenario. Now having survived both and extending his retirement endeavors with the homeless in Charlotte and Habitat for Humanity in El Salvador, he tells his compelling, highly readable, interwoven story of personal survival. And what a story! This memoir gives us a fascinating playbook of Charlotte’s names and places and shows how things got done in this city with transcendent lessons for the future.