The book cover for the memoir Within Our Grasp: Changing Ourselves and the World, with white text over an image of a foggy forest landscape and sky

Within Our Grasp

Changing Ourselves and the World

Within Our Grasp is a story about how the 9/11 tragedy became a turning point in my life. Within that story is a revelation of how I drew on a deep reservoir of life experiences, relationships, and community to turn tragedy into triumph and despair into hope. 

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Author Tom Etzel, a man with a white beard and mustache who is wearing a blue half zip shirt over a red collared shirt and a newsboy cap

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tom Etzel

I grew up in the United States during the 1960s—a time when the baby boomer generation began to challenge authority, taking to the streets in massive protests and marches and raising its collective voice in opposition to social injustices and the Vietnam War.

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