Fire Road is a story of both unrelenting horror and unexpected hope, a harrowing tale of life changed in an instant. It’s a moment forever captured, an iconic image that has come to define the horror and of the Vietnam War: Nine year old Kim Phuc running in agony moments after napalm bombs fell from the sky that burned away her clothing and seared deep into her skin. Once I started reading Fired Road, it was hard to put down.
Throughout the story, Kim shares the effects and destruction of war on everyone and the price paid for living in a war torn country. Left for dead in the morgue, Kim survived from the burns that covered most of her body, to find out that her country used her picture for propaganda. The cover caught my eye as well as the author’s journey through the horrors of war to faith, forgiveness and peace. Her families religion followed CaoDia which the gods did not help her through the hard times, until a Christian pastor came into her life did it change Kim’s way of thinking, did she realized that Jesus also endured pain and scars for her. That he died for her, did her way of thinking changed.
You will walk along side and feel the pain when her parents find her left in the morgue for dead, to walking away from CaoDia, to finding peace in her relationship with Jesus. Kim learned through hearing the Holy Spirit to live through her faith and love those who she leaves behind.
I highly recommend the book.
I received this book as from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
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