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Chargement... Motherless Child: A Journey of Growing Up and Forgivingpar Valencia Griffin-Wallace
Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  DubaiReader | Aug 3, 2018 |  aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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¿Yet even through the shadows and the pain, there is hope. There is a way out ¿ and there is a brighter tomorrow.¿ Raised by a mother who turned to drugs to relieve past pain, Valencia had to grow up fast., welcomed by gangs, shunned by her family and finding motherhood early should have sealed Valencia¿s fate¿ at least according to all the statistics¿Instead, this she found an inner strength born of determination, resolve and forgiveness ¿ the same kind of strength that can be found in anyone, with the right motivation. Her heart-wrenching story unfolds through glimpses of her own life and recollections of her mother, a woman she never knew till long after her death. Raw, poignant and brutally honest, ¿Motherless Child¿ steps into the void and reveals the hope, and forgiveness, the data ignores. Open, honest and often raw, ¿Motherless Child¿ exposes a falsehood far too many of us have been led to believe ¿ that those raised in addiction will fall victim themselves. There are choices¿ there is hope¿ and there is a different way. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
Auteur LibraryThingValencia Griffin-Wallace est un auteur LibraryThing, c'est-à-dire un auteur qui catalogue sa bibliothèque personnelle sur LibraryThing. Discussion en coursAucunCouvertures populaires 
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I fear that the story narrated in this audiobook is sadly all too common. Ms Griffin-Wallace was raised in an environment of drug addiction, abuse and poverty. She joined a gang because it gave her a family and she survived her childhood by keeping her wits about her.
She had a younger sister to whom she became a mother figure, often finding a way to provide food when their parents had failed them.
Encouragingly she managed to escape from this cycle, even though she found herself pregnant at an early age and followed this with two tarnished relationships. Eventually she found the love of a good man and was able to extricate herself from the cycle of abuse.
To her credit, the author now lectures and supports other women facing similar issues and gives them the strength to escape.
I enjoyed the narration by Andrea Jones-Pierre, she sounded authentic and I was actually surprised to find that she was a narrator, rather than the author herself.
I hope this book provides encouragement to others suffering similar struggles. (