Spirit Unbroken The Two Sides of Love eBook Rick Garlock Alice Garlock
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Driven by her life-long dream to find her maternal family in Japan, as a young girl Alice faces the darklings of her demeaning childhood, and as an adult, fights for her life back through self-discovery…and with her newfound heritage.
Spirit Unbroken The Two Sides of Love eBook Rick Garlock Alice Garlock
This was a difficult book to read but very satisfing. It makes you think how some humans can live through such horrific times and come out whole and others can not. The joy she finds with meeting some of her mother's family and being allowed to know and appreciate her heritage was my redemption to have continue reading the book at its most difficult times. I think this should be a "must read" for anyone/groups who is dealing with family abuse. I think anyone 12 years and up, if living or have lived in an abusive home, would get hope that life can be good.Product details
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Spirit Unbroken The Two Sides of Love eBook Rick Garlock Alice Garlock Reviews
I couldn't put it down.If anyone ever questions love,faith,strength,or hope this book is one way to renew all feelings.Very gripping to say the least.The best thing anyone could do after reading this book would be to pass it on, because there's something in it for everybody to be learned.
Thank you for sharing your story of great pain, great strength, love and unshakeable faith. This was an amazing read, and I love the way you move from past to present (which is almost a neccessity for one to breathe). This book should be on everyones 'to read' list.
This is a true story! Sad, but uplifting at the same time. It goes to show you that you cannot let the past bring you down. This is a great story for anyone who wants to be inspired. Once I started reading it, I did not want to put it down!
The authors state "This book is a true story."It is a story about a drunkard husband who had shown no respect for his wife. He was an incestuous father; his behavior was repugnant in every respect; he was a violent man. One particular episode shocked me. Her father cooked eggs for breakfast and made, four year old, Alice eat them despite her aversion for eggs. She threw up while gagging on her eggs and her dad made her bend over her plate and "lap up her own vomit like a dog." A survivor of the Holocaust writes in his memoir Sobibor "SS officer Paul Groth made two prisoners eat excrement." Such abominable act from a cruel Nazi is not surprising but such act, of a similar nature, coming from a father, living in the twentieth century in a developed country, is shocking and revolting.
Reading SPIRIT UNBROKEN I realize how appreciative I have to be for my parents' home during my formative years. I was raised in an environment where, to the best of my memory, (I am 84) there were no alcoholics in our community. Most people spent time at the synagogues worshiping rather than at bars drinking. My grandfather told me once"when you are drunk your mind and heart are locked. My father never raised his voice or lifted a hand to hit. Edged in my memory is kindness and politeness of my father and my step-mother towards each other. (My biological mother passed away at the age of 31, when I was five years old.) I was thirteen year old when the Germans murdered my father, my life was ripped. Alice, about the same age, was raped by her father. When I was fifteen, the Germans deported me to concentration camps. I was saddled with the most gruesome experiences. I saw the Germans, beating, torturing, shooting, hanging, babies choked or smashed to death, starving and other unimaginable acts of extreme wickedness carried out against innocent people. Those images I can't get out of my mind. As a Jew, I was considered to be genetically programmed as subhuman. I was hated before I was born and tortured by people who did not know me. The Holocaust lives within me. Trauma permeates my life. I try to be resilient, but my constitution is fragile. A similar sense emanates from SPIRIT UNBROKEN. Alice's hellish childhood and adolescence years are loaded with misery and hardship. Besides her own tribulations, her brothers, Martin and Brock and her best friend Kimmy died prematurely. Alice never got a chance to say good-bye to her legally- blind mother who passed away at the age of 62.
Alice joined her husband, Rick, on a business trip to Japan. She was grateful for the opportunity to see her mother's country of birth. For many years, Alice had been eager to meet her mother's family; her roots. The mother had been a Buddhist teacher until she married Richard, and left for the United States. Later on, she converted to Christianity. Alice understood the importance of knowing her heritage. Nowadays, not many children manifest interest in the linage of their ancestry or discover their heritage. Children of immigrants don't care to use, or even to know, their parents' mother-tongue; needless to say their parents foreign customs. During her visit at a Buddhist Temple, Alice became more aware of what her mother believed in and taught. Alice was warmly welcomed and accepted by her Japanese relatives. They gave her an "intense and holistic healing." The reader of SPIRIT UNBROKREN gets a glimpse of the Japanese culture; their way of life, the ubiquitous neatness, the extraordinary hospitality and cuisine. Children are obedient to their parents and their parents are obedient to theirs.
SPIRIT UNBROKEN is very well written. The chapters depicting Alice's childhood and the chapters pertaining to her visit to Japan are skillfully intertwined. Alice's life story widens the readers' horizon. I am grateful for having a chance to meet Alice & Rick Garlock, at a book-signing event. In SPIRIT UNBROKEN "tears have stained every page written." This book did indeed break my heart but I am recommending it wholeheartedly. After one failed relationship, Rob "rescued" Alice; he gave her comfort and love. Rob is counterbalancing past tribulations. I have miraculously survived the Holocaust. It warms my heart that Alice has miraculously survived "immense mental, physical and sexual abuse."
Alice and Rick have interwoven this tale of past and present into a suspenseful, sad, happy, and shocking book. I found myself gripped with the pain and loneliness her mom must have felt when she realized her vision of life in America was not what she expected.
Alice's journey through abuse to salvation and forgiveness is a remarkable show of strength. Finding her Japanese family is just the icing on the cake. Kudos!
This was a difficult book to read but very satisfing. It makes you think how some humans can live through such horrific times and come out whole and others can not. The joy she finds with meeting some of her mother's family and being allowed to know and appreciate her heritage was my redemption to have continue reading the book at its most difficult times. I think this should be a "must read" for anyone/groups who is dealing with family abuse. I think anyone 12 years and up, if living or have lived in an abusive home, would get hope that life can be good.
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