Overview
DISPLACED is a gripping true story of a young girl's and her young siblings' dramatic escape from an ultra religious Mennonite Colony in Bolivia. Covering the span of her early childhood through adulthood, Esther takes you on a journey of unspeakable loss, survival, resilience, and strong family bonds.
For Esther, everyday life revolves around rules, routine and monotonous chores. The youngest of fourteen siblings, born into a conservative Mennonite Colony in the heart of South America. Where her family lives off the grid on a farm in the colony. To Esther, her childhood-as she sees it-seems normal and ordinary, until one catastrophic day when everything changes. Suddenly eleven-year-old Esther is faced leaving behind everything she's ever known. This is her true, heartbreaking account of growing up in a Mennonite family and the harrowing events that unfold, which eventually lead to their dramatic escape. Everything she's known about her identity as a child is left behind as she struggles to find a place for herself in a new country, culture and language
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781777415112
- ISBN-10: 177741511X
- Publisher: One Book Publishing
- Publish Date: December 2020
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.59 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.72 pounds
- Page Count: 282
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