Cruel Harvest
Fran Elizabeth Grubb
I don’t often find biography-type books that interest me
enough to review them. When I saw this book on the list of options, I thought
about it and decided to get it and try it. I am glad I did. While it is most
certainly not a sappy, feel-good book, it will tug at your heart strings. Just
the thought of what some children go through everyday with nobody from the
outside world knowing. It is a story
that may make you cry, so be sure to have some tissues close by should you
decide to read it.
This is the true story of Fran and her six siblings growing
up with a very abusive father. They lived as migrant workers, traveling from
place to place to place. They were poor, they hardly went to school, and they
lived a life of fear as night after night their father would come home drunk
and beating their mother and them. This is the story of how Fran learned to
cope with her problems. This is the the story of how Jesus came into her life
and redeemed her from a life of awful living and sin. While no one else may
have known what was going on, Jesus knew.
This was a touching story to read. As the mother of a little
girl, I cannot imagine any little girl having to go through what Fran went
through. To see the power of the Lord in her life made the book a happy ending.
To read about her forgiveness was amazing. May every abused child see such a
happy ending to their story, the ending that only comes by the grace of
God.
*I received this book for free in exchange for a review from
Thomas Nelson. I am not required to write a positive review.*
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