Penn State Altoona announces 2024-25 Common Read selection

Book Cover: All the Memories That Remain by E. M. Liddick

Penn State Altoona has announced that E. M. Liddick’s memoir, “All the Memories that Remain: War, Alzheimer’s, and the Search for a Way Home,” is the Common Read selection for the 2024-25 academic year.

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ALTOONA, Pa. — Penn State Altoona has announced that E. M. Liddick’s memoir, “All the Memories that Remain: War, Alzheimer’s, and the Search for a Way Home,” is the Common Read selection for the 2024-25 academic year.

This memoir, written by a former Penn State Altoona student, has been described as “unflinching” and “vulnerable,” as it “stands witness to one man's fall from grace and his journey to find meaning in what remains.”

The book's topics of grief, PTSD, anxiety, veteran's issues and awareness, and Alzheimer’s disease are intended to resonate with the campus community and inspire important discussions.

More information about Common Read events is forthcoming.

Born and raised in a rural, blue-collar community in central Pennsylvania, Liddick graduated from Penn State and holds a juris doctor degree from Tulane University. He is a veteran of the Marine Corps Reserves and the Army's elite 75th Ranger Regiment.

His work has appeared in MilitaryTimes, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, The Moving Force Journal, UltraRunning magazine, War on the Rocks, The War Horse, and Thought Catalog.

Click here to learn more about Penn State Altoona's Common Read initiative.

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