Blindsided

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Sometimes the legal process to pursue justice is even more traumatic than the original sins committed against you.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>When David Samarzia informs leaders of Redeemer Lutheran Church that their pastor molested him in boyhood he doesn't ask them for a dime or even an apology for the trouble the abuse caused in his life. He wants one thing only-that they call off a mission trip for kids who would be staying with the predatory minister. That's all. He fully expects the church to take care of its own problem. But in a bewildering turn of events that makes national news he becomes embroiled in a vicious legal battle that will challenge all he believes in.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Unfolding against the backdrop of Minnesota's beautiful north country David's story exposes the dark underbelly of our justice system and the lawyers who perpetuate it. With unflinching honesty he writes of other people's failures and his own. Yet </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Blindsided</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> is no mere tell-all memoir. At its heart is a father-son story of family love loyalty and perseverance in the face of evil even when it costs them everything. </span></p>