Review: "The Wounded Deer Leaps The Highest"
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 8, 2013
Rebecca Myers had the courage to write to the abuse, cruelty, lies, secrets and loneliness that plagued her young life. A true story that redefines the fact that, "truth is stranger than fiction."This author is not afraid to give graphic details of what a little girl suffered at the hands of a family that had no compassion, and yet, she still knows how to love. It amazed me to read of her present traditional lifestyle in spite of her history, or baggage, as it is often called.Rebecca Myers is a hero in my eyes. I give this book 5 stars because of the nature of the subject from both the little girl's point of view and the adult Rebecca Myer's point of view. (Very difficult to do)As I read through the pages of her horror, pain and confusion as a child, she may have gotten a free ticket to suicide, or at the very least, keeping the cycle of abuse going with her own children. The residual sorrow in her shines, and cried through her pen. This book is obviously a labor of love.  I doubt she could have written it for any other reason but to help those who are suffering abuse today. As she seemed compelled to tell her story, as it happened and in a straight forward way, I must pray that she found it cathartic and that it freed her spirit from the chains of her lost childhood.No child should ever be left to fend for herself with two brothers; a toddler and a newborn. No human being should be thrust into a nightmare and know torture at the age of four years old. Her survival is impossible, but she did it anyway.  Myers is a fine author with the rare talent for telling truth no matter how difficult. Find out how she lived to tell the tale, read this book and see courage at its best.