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Santiago's Children - What I Learned about Life at an Orphanage in Chile (Paperback)
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Santiago's Children - What I Learned about Life at an Orphanage in Chile (Paperback)
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Runner-up, Bronze Medal, Independent Publishers Book Awards:
Memoir/Autobiography Category, 2009 Unclear about his future career
path, Steve Reifenberg found himself in the early 1980s working at
a small orphanage in a poor neighborhood in Santiago, Chile, where
a determined single woman was trying to create a stable home for a
dozen or so children who had been abandoned or abused. With little
more than good intentions and very limited Spanish, the 23-year-old
Reifenberg plunged into the life of the Hogar Domingo Savio,
becoming a foster father to kids who stretched his capacities for
compassion and understanding in ways he never could have imagined
back in the United States. In this beautifully written memoir,
Reifenberg recalls his two years at the Hogar Domingo Savio. His
vivid descriptions create indelible portraits of a dozen remarkable
kids-mature-beyond-her-years Veronica; sullen, unresponsive
Marcelo; and irrepressible toddler Andres, among them. As
Reifenberg learns more about the children's circumstances, he
begins to see the bigger picture of life in Chile at a crucial
moment in its history. The early 1980s were a time of economic
crisis and political uprising against the brutal military
dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Reifenberg skillfully interweaves
the story of the orphanage with the broader national and
international forces that dramatically impact the lives of the
kids. By the end of Santiago's Children, Reifenberg has told an
engrossing story not only of his own coming-of-age, but also of the
courage and resilience of the poorest and most vulnerable residents
of Latin America.
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