Before I Go is unique in the memoir genre. Not only is it a book about growing up in Ohio in the 1950s and "coming of age" in the 1960s, it recounts the authors decade-long struggle against Creationists as a public school science teacher.
Before I Go also presents jim walkers astonishing theological perspective which melds the worlds religious traditions with late 20th-century physics and it briefly outlines his radical ideas about educational reform.
Quite simply, Before I Go is a book that will be talked about for years and, in many respects, marks a "quantum leap" in the realm of autobiography.
