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5 comments about Ordeal by Fire: A memoir.

1. This is a true story of love, abuse, suffering, tragedy, forgiveness, redemption and closure. When I began reading this book, I was not able to put it down until I had finished it.

   This is a memoir. If you are living through, or have lived through, family violence, or simply know someone in that situation, then this book may be very helpful. It grew out of Rita's own need to come to terms with these horrific events in her life. She has since also become active in providing support and counseling to others who are suffering or have suffered domestic abuse.

   Be warned: the violence that the author and her family endured is graphically described. But it is not gratuitous violence. The violence was real, personal and even fatal for some members of Rita's family. That it occurred in a middle class family in a middle class neighborhood in a major North American city provides a hint of the pain that may be only one friend or family away from each of us.




2. Rita's book is about her journey; an idyillic child hood living in
   exotic locations, her horrific first few months of marriage, her attempt
   to escape, her immigration to Canada, her constant quest to placate her
   violent and unstable husband, her carrer success, her wonderful children
   and the most unimaginable tragedy anyone can ever experience.

   Her story has a universal appeal which crosses cultural and economic
   boundaries. My admiration for her has no bounds, because she has
   survived and is willing to share her story to celebrate her son and to
   reach out to women.




3. Hi! I am Rita Nayar.
   I am writing a message here to provide an email address to those of you who wish to get in touch with me!
   It is rita_nayar@hotmail.com
   Please do write as I would love to get your thoughts, comments, feedback or simply an acknowledgement of my book.



4. Wow! An amazing story of survival and sacrifice. This extraordinarily personal story is written in a simple yet eloquent style that provides a window directly into the heart of a woman dealing with unbearable emotional confines in her life.

   It is both an awful story of an oppressive and controlling man and awesome story of a woman's struggle for emotional and spiritual freedom for herself and her children. And it is the story of an Indian woman's struggle to reconcile her own identity within traditional Indian culture and with family expectations about her role in marriage and in life.

   Read this book if you want to be astounded...and then inspired!




5. Rita has shared a true life story. It is a brave revelation of the many twists of life. There are many lesson one picks up througout the book. To look at life with a broad, unselfish view while valuing every drop in the ocean of time is one. Every life event has a purpose, and one must have faith in the way life unfolds itself. Her presentation is truly pictureque --from Rajasthan in India to Africa and multi-cultural Canada.

No comments about An Apostle of the North: Memoirs of the Right Reverend William Carpenter Bompas (Western Canada Reprint Series).

1 comments about Ancestral Portraits: The Colour of My People (Art in Profile).

1. Ancestral Portraits is a retrospective of the life and art of McDonald, a Native artist, profiles one of Canada's premier First Nation artist, blending selected color images with a review of McDonald's peoples and influences. The many firstperson insights make for a fine examination of Canadian and Native arts.

No comments about I Once Knew an Indian Woman.

No comments about Odjig: The Art of Daphne Odjig, 1960-2000.

No comments about Stories from Indian Wigwams.

No comments about My People, Myself.

1 comments about Breaking the Ice: An Arctic Odyssey.

1. Arnold Ruskell has a delightfully humorous way of telling about life in the Arctic as it was when the Inuit were still a nomadic people. Although it is the diary of an Irish, Anglican priest, it is not "religious". It was an enjoyable read.