It Wasn't Roaring, It Was Weeping

Interpreting the Language of Our Fathers Without Repeating Their Stories

De: Lisa-Jo Baker

Narrado por: Lisa-Jo Baker

Duración: 8 h y 4 m

Resumen del Editor

An honest and lyrical coming-of-age memoir of growing up in South Africa at the height of apartheid, and an invitation to recognize and refuse to repeat the sins of our fathers—from the bestselling author of Never Unfriended

“Heartfelt, emotionally charged reflections . . . [a] bracing memoir.”—Kirkus Review

“Important. Riveting. Unforgettable . . . a profoundly captivating story that can profoundly change your own story.”—Ann Voskamp, New York Times bestselling author of WayMaker

Born White in the heart of Zululand during the racial apartheid, Lisa-Jo Baker longed to write a new future for her children—a longing that set her on a journey to understand where she fit into a story of violence and faith, history and race. Before marriage and motherhood, she came to the United States to study to become a human rights advocate. When she naïvely walked right into America’s own turbulent racial landscape, Baker experienced the kind of painful awakening that is both individual and universal, personal and social. Yet years would go by before she traced this American trauma back to her own South African past.

Baker was a teenager when her mother died of cancer, leaving her with her father. Though they shared a language of faith and justice, she often feared him, unaware that his fierce temper had deep roots in a family’s and a nation’s pain. Decades later, old wounds reopened when she found herself spiraling into a terrifying version of her father, screaming herself hoarse at her son. Only then did Baker realize that to go forward—to refuse to repeat the sins of our fathers—we must first go back.

With a story that stretches from South Africa’s outback to Washington, D.C., It Wasn’t Roaring, It Was Weeping is a courageous look at inherited hurts and prejudices, and a hope-filled example for all who feel lost in life or worried that they’re too off course to make the necessary corrections. Baker’s story shows that it’s never too late to be free.

©2024 Lisa-Jo Baker (P)2024 Random House Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

“Using her father’s life as a point of departure, the South Africa-born author [Lisa-Jo Baker] offers heartfelt, emotionally charged reflections on their apartheid-riven homeland. . . . Throughout, Baker seeks to understand the many sins of both her homeland and her adopted land, and she makes a tender effort to forgive her father. . . . A painful, lyrical, and bracing memoir.”—Kirkus Review

“Important. Riveting. Unforgettable. . . . A profoundly captivating story that can profoundly change your own story.”—Ann Voskamp, New York Times bestselling author of One Thousand Gifts and WayMaker

“Achingly personal yet transcendently and triumphantly human, It Wasn’t Roaring, It Was Weeping is unputdownable.”—Karen Swallow Prior, PhD, author of The Evangelical Imagination

Incredible story

One of my favorite books to date. Lisa Jo Baker writes an incredible memoir documenting the heartbreaking and redeeming parts of her story.

A radical gift

Lisa Jo’s memoir is storytelling art. The way Lisa Jo time travels you into her story while, at the same time, also somehow transporting you back into your own story…I am amazed. This book is a vulnerable, raw, human and humble look at healing. I am so grateful to Lisa Jo for being brave enough to write it for all of us, for our healing . The audio production was incredible!!! I loved hearing Lis Jo’s accent and hearing her speak occasionally in her native tongue. It added such a deep richness to an already captivating memoir.

Beautiful story of maturity & forgiveness

LisaJo is such a great storyteller! You can taste, smell, and feel the homeland of her youth. You get the rawness of her encounters with her dad. You feel the rage and yet regret . The story of the cross means we don’t have to continue the burdens of our ancestors. As a woman who has had to apologize too many times to her own children for her temper, I felt it in my gut.

Changes trajectories!

I’ve read Lisa Jo for a while now. But, I’m so grateful to have been drawn into THIS story, this message, this healing journey. Her telling matches the beautiful writing in which her family tree unfolds, in all it’s broken, raw, tilled-up places into the hope of healing, forgiveness and change in trajectory for our family lineage. Thank you Lisa Jo for lending us your courage and your honesty. I’m so very blessed.

The healing of the soul

Most excellent book. I found myself encouraged and challenged in my own life to face my memories, my past with Grace.

Beautiful story of Redemption!

What a deeply painful and beautiful story from start to finish. Every word carefully chosen to help transport us there. Loved every minute! Didn’t want it to end!

Best book of the year!

I can’t imagine this story of hope not being the best book I will have read all year!

Excellent and unique memoir

I advise getting the audiobook rather than reading this on paper. Lisa Jo reads her own book in several languages and it was excellent to hear those languages as they are meant to be spoken.

Lisa Jo weaves together, her countries, history and her families history with themes of sadness, anger, but ultimately redemption and forgiveness. The reader is left with the hope of Jesus Christ for all of our hard family histories. Bravo, Lisa Jo!

Stunning and precious

I loved this so much. It reminded me of my young self leaving Africa and coming to the US for school. The author is so amazing with words and descriptions. The way she articulated everything is helping me untangle my feelings about everything left behind and my life here now. Truly poignant.

A well-timed word

History. Healing. Stories and so much truth. It's beautiful and heartbreaking. I loved it. I will mention I have a strong fainting tendency with blood etc and several times the world spun and my eyesight narrowed with descriptions of violence. But those stories are told for a reason. Be sitting down with a cool washcloth nearby for some of the story if you see and feel language in a similar manner. Still worth it and thats only some of the time