Ten Thousand Sorrows - Elizabeth Kim > Reviews

Advantages: A very uplifting ending.
Disadvantages: Is extremely sad and distressing in places.

...life is made up of ten thousand sorrows, but also ten thousand joys. Her childhood with her mother is a happy one, despite their ostrasization and stonings by other villagers, until Elizabeth's mother is killed by her father and brother to maintain the honour of the family. Elizabeth is forced to watch her mother being hung from a hiding place, but she is soon discovered, and taken to an American Missionary orphanage by her aunt, who are told ... Read review

Advantages: To be able to count our blessings!
Disadvantages: Will charge your emotions one way or another

...life was made up of Ten Thousand Sorrows but Ten Thousand Joys would balance it out too. I really was not sure as I started to read this book, whether I could bear to read of Omma's murder or the sick abuse that followed the author's life for many years. As a Christian, I was personally sickened by the way she was mistreated by her so-called Christian adoptive mum & dad and future husband, and I could fully understand her aversion to the religious ... Read review