About the Book
Most memoirs are like a smooth, paved road through a park; you can enjoy the scenery without effort. Saving the Subject is more like a rugged mountain trail. There are steep, rocky climbs (philosophy and horror) that will leave you winded, but there are also breathtaking overlooks (personal testimony and grace) that you simply cannot see from the road below. It is not an easy walk, but the view from the top is one that a paved road could never reach.
It’s not a self-help book disguised as theology, and it’s not a theology book disguised as memoir. It’s a first-person philosophical argument for why you exist, and it’s written by someone who almost didn’t.
Get the Book
Paperback, hardcover, and ebook. Also stocked locally at Viewpoint Books in Columbus, Indiana.
Who Should Read It
Anyone who suspects that the contemporary metrics of human value (productivity, intelligence, wellness, performance) are missing something essential, and who wants to see that suspicion tested philosophically rather than merely asserted inspirationally.
Anyone willing to follow an argument across genres: from a toddler’s first word to Kaczynski’s manifesto, from a basketball gym in Columbus, Indiana to the Garden of Eden, from a law review article on the foundations of normativity to a CT scan of a fractured skull.
Readers who require strict disciplinary boundaries or who are uncomfortable with Christian theological commitments presented without apology will find it challenging, and not always in the ways the author intends. But readers who are willing to take seriously a book that insists personhood is irreducible, and that proves it, at least in part, by existing, will find here a work of uncommon ambition, uncommon honesty, and uncommon nerve.
Bring the Book to Your Group
Cameron speaks and signs at universities, churches, bar associations, hospitals, and conferences. CLE-accredited book talks are available.
The First Book Tour (2024)
The book launched in the fall of 2024 with a tour across Indiana and Kentucky, kept here as a record: the Kiwanis Club of New Albany book talk (August 30), the community release celebration at Schad Law, P.C. (September 6), a return to Columbus North High School nine years after the accident for a signing (September 18), the Faith & Work Forum in Indianapolis (October 18), “Identity, Trauma & Authority” at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law (October 29), a Louisville Bar Association CLE webinar (November 7), a book talk and wine evening at Mt. St. Francis in Floyds Knobs (November 14), an Indiana State Bar Association CLE-accredited book talk (November 14), a signing with the Indiana Trial Lawyers Association in Indianapolis (November 21), and the CASA Floyd County holiday party in New Albany (December 5).
