Where Children Run, Karen Emilson
Where Children Run, Karen Emilson
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Where Children Run

Author: Karen Emilson

Narrator: Elizabeth Wiley

Unabridged: 16 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/18/2018

Synopsis

Twins David and Dennis Pischke's lives change forever when their father dies, and a man damaged by the war arrives at their farm near the isolated town of Moosehorn, Manitoba. Boleslaw Domko quickly works his way into their lives and their mother's bed.

Where Children Run opens with one of their earliest memories—the day Domko throws their infant stepsister against the wall. In this first-hand account, the Twins recall years of neglect, starvation, and enslavement; horrific beatings and candlelit nights spent in the nearby St. Thomas Lutheran Church. Neighbors intervene, but their efforts provide only temporary relief as the children's mother—also living in fear—refuses to press charges.

The brothers vow that if they survive, they will someday expose their tormentor and members of their mother's religious organization who turned a blind-eye to their suffering. This is their story—told with stark honesty and in heart-wrenching detail.

Where Children Run is a timeless, unforgettable book about survival; and a powerful testament to the strength and adaptability of the human spirit.

Contains mature themes.

About Karen Emilson

Karen Emilson was born and raised in southern Ontario, the daughter of Irish immigrants on her mothe's side; and an eclectic mix of Swiss, German, and English on her father's side. She spent all her free time as a child reading books and writing stories, dreaming one day of becoming a writer. In 1982 she came to Manitoba as a young bride, settling in at the Nordheim farm in Siglunes. She started working as a rural newspaper reporter and published the Canadian Bestseller, Where Children Run in 1996 and its sequel When Memories Remain in 2001. When Lake Manitoba overflowed its banks in 2011, flooding out the farmland at Siglunes, she was inspired to finish a story started 10 years earlier about the immigrants who carved out a living there. Now she writes books full time and lives in Grunthal, Manitoba with her husband and little dog Scooter. Be Still the Water is her first novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Deanna on March 04, 2017

This book actually took me a very long time to read. When it first came out I started to read it but it upset me so much that I had to stop. I picked it up again years later and it still took a long time to read. Not because it wasn't well written, but because I found it difficult reading about the......more

Goodreads review by Viga on July 12, 2016

As a victim of child abuse myself, I have a pretty thick skin when I read stories similar to my own. But WHERE CHILDREN RUN by Karen Emilson shook me to my core with its depiction of violence against children, especially since WHERE CHILDREN RUN is a true story. There were times this tough-skinned r......more

Goodreads review by Lee on April 14, 2021

It’s really sad that some people feel they have the right to condemn my grandmother and call her a “criminal”. Back then there were no support systems in place to help abused women and children, and the church was no help at all. I hope you’re never put in a position were you feel that helpless. One......more

Goodreads review by Margaret on October 22, 2007

This is based on a true story. My Dad actually met one of the boys (now an adult, of course) whose story is told in the book. The book itself is not well-written in a literary sense, but the story is gut-wrenchingly sad.......more

Goodreads review by Amy Brooks on May 04, 2019

Disturbing, and utterly heartbreaking This story took me an usually long time to read. I could only read small bits, and then I would get physically sick, and I would have to put it down for awhile. To me., the word "Mother" means, one who nurtures and loves her children, and protects them from harm.......more

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