Cruel Harvest
A Memoir

This is a book that clearly Frances Grubb had to write, but I found some of it bordered on unbelievable: not the violence and abuse, which are all too commonly real even in the most upstanding families, or the effects of alcoholism on a family, but in the way Jesus and Frances' "faith" is woven thro......more

If you liked the Glass Castle, this is a must-read (and even better, in my opinion)!......more

A girl learns to become invisible, to look the other way, to say nothing when a curious stranger asks if she's okay. To lie. To expect nothing, not even from relatives. To cry without tears. To pray silently. When she is fourteen, and weary, a girl begins to wish she were dead. Reading this description......more

Rarely does a book get under my skin in the way that Cruel Harvest: A Memoir has done. I will never forget it. It is a raw, haunting tale of Fran Elizabeth Grubb's life as the daughter of an abusive, alcoholic migrant worker up to her bold escape at the age of fourteen and her greatest desire to fin......more