Length1h 54m
About this audiobook
Held Ground is a memoir in essays about restraint, love, frailty, and the sacredness of ordinary life.
Drawing on an Appalachian childhood, military service, fatherhood, marriage, loss, and the long aftermath of grief, Rob Wyatt examines the forces that shape a man—and the choices that determine what he passes on.
These essays move between inherited wisdom and hard-earned accountability, between the body’s memory of danger and its capacity to recognize safety, between the desire to hold on and the courage required to let go.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length1 hr 54 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateAug 11, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Credits
1916. The Tyranny of Time
2Title
2017. Grace
3Preface
2118. Attrition
41. Held Ground
2219. Ordinary Tuesday
52. What It Feels Like to Want
2320. Without Ceremony
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63. Don't Do That, It Hurts
2421. Before I Remember
74. Not Meant to Land
2522. Kitchen Vigil
85. Same Page Different Light
2623. After the Cathedral Burned
96. You Can’t Brace a House on Air
2724. The Part That Looked Like Silence
107. Agency
2825. Frailty
118. Scars Make Me Accountable
2926. On the Record
129. Cadence
3027. Edges
1310. After
3128. What Deserves Fidelity
1411. Memorial Day
3229. Tending
1512. What Does Not Pass Through
33Afterword
1613. Where the Edge Was
34About the Author
1714. Spite
35Closing Credits
1815. I Don’t Pray
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