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It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping: Interpreting the Language of Our Fathers Without Repeating Their Stories

by Baker Lisa-Jo

  • Hardback
  • 272 pages
  • Publisher: Convergent Books
  • 14.5 x 21.1 x 3.1 cm

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For readers seeking healing from family trauma

Helps you understand inherited prejudices and pain

You will find hope and a path to personal freedom

This memoir invites you to confront and break generational cycles of pain.

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__An honest and lyrical coming-of-age memoir of growing up in South Africa at the height of apartheid, and an invitation to recognize and refuse to repeat the sins of our fathers--from the bestselling author of _Never Unfriended___Born White in the heart of Zululand during the racial apartheid, Lisa-Jo Baker longed to write a new future for her children--a longing that set her on a journey to understand where she fit into a story of violence and faith, history and race. Before marriage and motherhood, she came to the United States to study to become a human rights advocate. When she naïvely walked right into America's own turbulent racial landscape, Baker experienced the kind of painful awakening that is both individual and universal, personal and social. Yet years would go by before she traced this American trauma back to her own South African past. Baker was a teenager when her mother died of cancer, leaving her with her father. Though they shared a language of faith and justice, she often feared him, unaware that his fierce temper had deep roots in a family's and a nation's pain. Decades later, old wounds reopened when she found herself spiraling into a terrifying version of her father, screaming herself hoarse at her son. Only then did Baker realize that to go forward--to refuse to repeat the sins of our fathers--we must first go back. With a story that stretches from South Africa's outback to Washington, D.C., It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping is a courageous look at inherited hurts and prejudices, and a hope-filled example for all who feel lost in life or worried that they're too off course to make the necessary corrections. Baker's story shows that it's never too late to be free.
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  • Title

    It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping: Interpreting the Language of Our Fathers Without Repeating Their Stories

  • Author

    Baker Lisa-Jo

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Convergent Books

  • Published

    May 2024

  • Weight

    386g

  • Page Count

    272

  • Dimensions

    14.5 x 21.1 x 3.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780525652861

  • ISBN-10

    0525652868

  • Eden Code

    6307225

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