Displaced: A memoir

DISPLACED is a gripping true story of a young girls and her young siblings dramatic escape from an ultra religious Mennonite Colony in Bolivia. Covering the span of her early childhood through adulthood Esther takes you on a journey of unspeakable loss survival resilience and strong family bonds. For Esther everyday life revolves around rules routine and monotonous chores. The youngest of fourteen siblings born into a conservative Mennonite Colony in the heart of South America. Where her family lives off the grid on a farm in the colony. To Esther her childhood-as she sees it-seems normal and ordinary until one catastrophic day when everything changes. Suddenly eleven-year-old Esther is faced leaving behind everything shes ever known. This is her true heartbreaking account of growing up in a Mennonite family and the harrowing events that unfold which eventually lead to their dramatic escape. Everything shes known about her identity as a child is left behind as she struggles to find a place for herself in a new country culture and language