What They Meant for Evil, Rebecca Deng
What They Meant for Evil, Rebecca Deng
List: $24.98 | Sale: $17.49
Club: $12.49

What They Meant for Evil
How a Lost Girl of Sudan Found Healing, Peace, and Purpose in the Midst of Suffering

Author: Rebecca Deng, Ginger Kolbaba

Narrator: Tsidii Le Loka

Unabridged: 7 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Faith Words

Published: 09/10/2019


Synopsis

Many stories have been told about the famous Lost Boys but now, for the first time, a Lost Girl shares her hauntingly beautiful and inspiring story.
One of the first unaccompanied refugee children to enter the United States in 2000, after South Sudan's second civil war took the lives of most of her family, Rebecca's story begins in the late 1980s when, at the age of four, her village was attacked and she had to escape. What They Meant for Evil is the account of that unimaginable journey. With the candor and purity of a child, Rebecca recalls how she endured fleeing from gunfire, suffering through hunger and strength-sapping illnesses, dodging life-threatening predators-lions, snakes, crocodiles, and soldiers alike-that dogged her footsteps, and grappling with a war that stole her childhood.
Her story is a lyrical, captivating portrait of a child hurled into wartime, and how through divine intervention, she came to America and found a new life full of joy, hope, and redemption.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Darla

Rebecca Deng saw more trauma and horror in her life between the ages of four and fifteen than most of us have in a lifetime. Her Dinka language did not even have a word for rape and the terror experienced by her people is inconceivable. The story of her many escapes from villages during the war in S......more

Goodreads review by Meggie

There are hardly words for how a book like this can be transformational for a reader’s perspective. Rebecca's story is incredible and she tells it with a narrative style that is hard to put down. While many have heard of the Lost Boys of Sudan, many do not know about the less than 100 girls who were......more

Goodreads review by Ariele

This was an amazing story of true faith in God when evil pervades her entire life, determination, survival, heartbreak, redemption and more.......more

Rebecca's story of being one of the most girls of Sudan is so powerful! The courage and bravery that she embodies is so incredible! A must read!......more