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Title: Orphan: A True Story of Abandonment, Abuse, and Redemption by Roger Dean Kiser ISBN: 1-58062-448-0 Publisher: Adams Media Corporation Pub. Date: 15 November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.96 (23 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent read but a few minor quibbles...
Comment: In the style of A Child Called It (the bestseller by Dave Peltzer), Orphan is told from the viewpoint of a child who endured nearly unspeakable horrors in a Florida orphanage and somehow emerged, spirit intact, to not only survive but tell his story with unflinchable honesty. The book is divided into three sections: Before, During and After,with the majority of the book (the During section) devoted to memories of the orphanage. With no one to love him and with repeated beatings, abuse and pain to love forward to, I find it miraculous that the author, Roger Dean Kiser, Sr, actually managed to make a life for himself after enduring the indignities of orphanage life. His memoir reveals in vivid detail how orphans were seen as societal rejects and throwaways and treated as objects, not people. While he was often beaten severely till he passed out, Kiser emphasizes that "it is not the physical pain that endangers orphans the most. It is the mental pain caused by stress from years and years of being neglected, pushed aside, disregarded, unloved and made to feel undeserving..." While I'd recommend this book as an eye-opening, even inspiring, read, I do wish there had been more detail in the After section of this book, the part that dealt with Kiser's life after he left the orphanage. This section seems rushed and abbreviated and there is little explanation of the life he made for himself as an adult - or how he got the courage to rise above his painful past to do so. He notes in the book's introduction that he has a wife, son and daughter-in-law and yet he doesn't note how he met his wife, how she felt about his past and if it affected his present life. After learning so much about his early life in the orphanage, I was left with plenty of unanswered questions like: How does a person who suffers so many blows to his self-esteen find the confidence to make a new life? Did he/does he suffer from painful flashbacks or memories today? Would he describe himself as happy or at peace now?
Rating: 5
Summary: This book is a MUST Read!
Comment: This book should be REQUIRED reading for anyone that comes into contact with children on a regular basis. Every childcare worker, educator, orphanage staff member, child psychologist, pediatric doctor/nurse, daycare worker, religious leader and parent should read this book before raising or working with America's most precious commodity -- our children. With his "child's eye view" Roger is able to convey the pain and heartache that too many children have suffered at the hands of those who are supposed to care for them. Child abuse in our society must stop if we are to put America back on track and this book should be the first step. "Orphan" will put into words some of your most horrifying nightmares when you think of yourself as a child or even your own children, lying peacefully and safely in their warm, cozy beds. Roger has a message that the public must see up-close -- close enough for them to begin squirming...and then do something about what is, unfortunately, a gripping and terrifying reality for many of our children. Definitely five stars...definitely a keeper.
Rating: 5
Summary: Astounding read
Comment: As many have reviewed before, there are simply not enough stars that I may account to this book. It is indeed a story about abuse, eventual strength, and redemption. I wish that I could say that Mr. Kiser's story was not true, but, alas, it was. Perhaps if not only just his eventual redemption, the fact that many, perhaps thousands of people out there will be helped and informed about child abuse that occurred in orphanages in the past. As well, it will help many and inform many on the subject of child abuse, in general. Indeed, Roger Kiser was a beautiful, special boy and I am sad that noone ever told him that in his childhood. Ah, but he grew up to be a wonderful man, husband, father, and-author. He has opened the door to the often not talked about subject of child abuse. And I will forever, absolutely truly be grateful to him, for that. Not enough stars, for this book. Not enough stars, at all.
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Title: Wayne: An Abused Child's Story of Courage, Survival, and Hope by Wayne Theodore, Leslie A. Horvitz, Wayne, Wendy A. Pini ISBN: 0936197455 Publisher: Harbor House Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Charred Souls: A Story of Recreational Child Abuse by Trena Cole, Madelaine Pinkus-Rohn, Hope Chema ISBN: 097235350X Publisher: Oberpark Publishing Inc. Pub. Date: 04 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Death from Child Abuse... and No One Heard by Eve Krupinski, Dana Weikel, John G. Cronin ISBN: 0930507045 Publisher: Currier Davis Publishing Pub. Date: 01 June, 1986 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: They Cage the Animals at Night by Jennings Michael Burch ISBN: 0451159411 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: August, 1988 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Daddy's Apprentice : Incest, Corruption, and Betrayal: A Survivor's Story by Sandy Wilson, S. L. Bolton ISBN: 0595135544 Publisher: Writer's Showcase Press Pub. Date: 12 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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