What About the Children?: Two Left, Three Were Taken, and One Was Left Behind

by Alice Heath-Gladden

Don't worry, they'll take good care of you.' 'How do you know that; what if they don't? You didn't.' If you could reinvent your life, how would you do it? What About the Children explores a fictionalized life story, uncovering wounds so deep that only the writer could go there. After both parents die within a few months of each other, Alisha Copper and her three brothers are summarily separated and placed in orphanages. How could these siblings, so geographically separated, ever be reunited? The story's twists and turns are mixed with tragedy after tragedy, all overcome by the unlikely advantage of the Copper Children's beginning.

336 pages, Paperback

First published August 4, 2009

Reviews

[Angie Persch · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very heartwarming! Shows that you don't have to always be a victim even if you had a rough start in life. You can be what you want to be and work for.

[Michelle Combs · Rating 2 out of 5]

Great premise, a few passages of beautiful imagery and emotion. It took me an insanely long time to finish this book; after the initial chapters it failed to maintain my attention.