What was it like for a new immigrant to Canada in 1936? Was it loneliness that made my mother return to her native Germany on the eve of World War II, taking me, her two-year-old daughter with her?
Separated from my father and my native Canada we spent the entire war, eleven years in all, in Germany. Our life and struggles in a world at war and my own subjection to an abusive mother. Read about the last days of the war, American liberation and when 15-million refugees flooded into the west, a west that was 50-70% in rubble.
Returning to Canada proved no better, as my father too abandoned me.
Part One covers the first twenty-eight years of my life, including a teen marriage and subsequent service in the Catholic Church.
Part Two relates my deepening commitment to the church and to God as I understood him.
An amazingly candid portrayal of a life lived on two continents and in two worlds, the secular and the religious, and how abuse and betrayal sometimes happen to good people.
Details
- Publication Date
- Jan 28, 2007
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780978281205
- Category
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): Leah Chapman
Specifications
- Pages
- 530
- Binding
- Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- US Trade (6 x 9 in / 152 x 229 mm)