Oher wrote this book to explain to kids that there is more to escaping a life of great poverty and need than waiting around to be adopted by rich people. Here it is: Michael Oher is really, really frosted that they made it look like Leigh Anne Tuohy had to show him how to play football. There is one place where the frustration he feels about the distortion of his story is most palpable. In fact, the book is not a list of complaints about how his life has been represented at all. To read Oher's own version of his life (ghostwritten by former Sports Illustrated associate editor Don Yaeger) is to witness a real feat of grace: he decisively reclaims control of this story without once taking anything away from his love of or his gratitude for his adoptive family - a family that's been elevated to near sainthood. let's see, how does Oher himself put it in his new book, I Beat The Odds? To viewers of the 2009 film The Blind Side, which told the story of how Oher came to live with the wealthy Tuohy family, Michael Oher might have seemed. He didn't talk much and he didn't want to rehash his past, so he just. To readers of Michael Lewis' 2006 book The Blind Side: Evolution Of A Game, Michael Oher - now an offensive tackle for the Baltimore Ravens, once a kid with a crack-addicted mother living in public housing in Memphis - likely seemed deeply enigmatic.
if you listen to a station that carries the show live. Special programming note: Michael Oher is scheduled to appear tomorrow on NPR's Talk Of The Nation.
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