The Storekeeper's DaughterA Memoir by Katie Funk Wiebe |
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"These stories from a skillful writer deal with revolution, terror, loss, flight, and the Great Depression. Yet the experiences of young Katie, storekeeper's daughter, pulsate with youthful hope, humor, and life's mysteries." --Harry Loewen, Professor Emeritus, University of Winnipeg
Striking storylines and images fill this classic memoir by Katie Funk Wiebe. There are the "four corpses in the house in two weeks" and the "smoking, ravaged town of Brodi on the Austrian border," where "horror faced them on all sides." There is the experience of Wiebe's father, for whom "church affairs seemed to fall into the category of either loveless power or powerless love." There are the "hunger years" and the trek from Russia to Canada.
There are those "sweet mysteries of life" and the delicious details of young Katie's quest to unravel the Great Mystery. Beneath it all Wiebe is on a journey, a trek not only from one country to another but from childhood through adulthood and back to embrace a once-distant past.
"Walking with Wiebe is an enlightening, interesting, and challenging experience. Her zest for life is contagious. Parents and children alike can benefit from this funny and sometimes tragic book." --Peter J. Dyck, author of Up from the Rubble
About the Author
Katie Funk Wiebe, Wichita, Kansas, professor emeritus at Tabor College, retired in 1990 after teaching English for 24 years. The author and editor of hundreds of noted books and articles, Wiebe has long encouraged the writing of family stories. Now she shares her own with you.
Other books by Katie Funk Wiebe
Bless Me Too, My Father - OUT OF PRINT
Paper, 264 pages, 0-8361-3472-9
Border Crossing
Paper, 232 pages, 0-8361-9013-0
Prayers of an Omega - OUT OF PRINT
Paper, 112 pages, 0-8361-3658-6