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Fire Road: The Napalm Girl's Journey through the Horrors of War to Faith, Forgiveness, and Peace
Written by Kim Phuc Phan Thi
Narrated by Emily Woo Zeller
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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Get out! Run! We must leave this place! They are going to destroy this whole place! Go, children, run first! Go now! These were the final shouts nine year-old Kim Phuc heard before her world dissolved into flames-before napalm bombs fell from the sky, burning away her clothing and searing deep into her skin. It's a moment forever captured, an iconic image that has come to define the horror and violence of the Vietnam War. Kim was left for dead in a morgue; no one expected her to survive the attack. Napalm meant fire, and fire meant death.
Against all odds, Kim lived-but her journey toward healing was only beginning. When the napalm bombs dropped, everything Kim knew and relied on exploded along with them: her home, her country's freedom, her childhood innocence and happiness. The coming years would be marked by excruciating treatments for her burns and unrelenting physical pain throughout her body, which were constant reminders of that terrible day. Kim survived the pain of her body ablaze, but how could she possibly survive the pain of her devastated soul?
Fire Road is the true story of how she found the answer in a God who suffered Himself; a Savior who truly understood and cared about the depths of her pain.
Against all odds, Kim lived-but her journey toward healing was only beginning. When the napalm bombs dropped, everything Kim knew and relied on exploded along with them: her home, her country's freedom, her childhood innocence and happiness. The coming years would be marked by excruciating treatments for her burns and unrelenting physical pain throughout her body, which were constant reminders of that terrible day. Kim survived the pain of her body ablaze, but how could she possibly survive the pain of her devastated soul?
Fire Road is the true story of how she found the answer in a God who suffered Himself; a Savior who truly understood and cared about the depths of her pain.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherHighbridge Company
TranslatorAshley Wiersma
Release dateOct 3, 2017
ISBN9781681688428
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What a beautiful, strong, courageous woman! We are blessed to have her on planet earth.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What an amazing testimony! Kim Phuc Phan Tin embodies what it means to serve others in love as she shares her message of hope in Jesus Christ for all to hear.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Some books impact you more deeply than others, and this book was one of those for me. I always approach memoirs with a slight hesitancy—so many get off on tangents, or drag on far too long, but generally, there’s SOMETHING worth getting out of them, so I do my best to try to include a few in my reading diet every year.Fire Road, though, was a refreshing read. The things Kim Phuc had to go through in her childhood and young adult years were beyond anything I could imagine, but the faith and tenacity she showed as she endured it all was encouraging, to say the least. So often, she had to deal with injustice with no possible recourse, and as an outsider looking on her life, I’d say what a waste! But God’s perfect timing was shown over and over again, and though it would be great to change the circumstances, her example of courage blessed me—and inspired me to be more courageous in my own life.Anything but dry, this is an excellent memoir that I highly recommend.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5"The Girl from the Picture" tells her story. She was just a girl when the Vietnam War ravaged her country and disrupted the peaceful life of her family. They got used to the presence of North Vietnamese soldiers around their village - though not entirely to the way they demanded supplies from them whenever they needed it. But when bombing raids started Kim's family fled to the safety of a nearby temple. Nothing could shelter them from the horrible fire that rained from the sky the day the infamous picture of Kim running naked and burned down the road was taken. Kim tells us what happened after that picture - a miraculous story of how her mother's tenacity literally brought her back from the dead in a hospital morgue. The pain that Kim must now endure every day of her life starts at that point. So does her spiritual journey as she searches for something to give her hope when she must live with so much pain. Kim's journey through pain and from despair to hope takes her from Vietnam to Cuba, the Soviet Union and eventually Canada and the U.S. I found it moving and kept routing for her to succeed over such dismal odds and it was satisfying when she did. I did find parts of the book disjointed and hard to follow however, and I can only feel this is due to the translation of her story as English is obviously not her first language.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fire RoadThe Napalm Girl's Journey Through the Horrors of War to Faith, Forgiveness, and PeaceBy: Kim Phuc Phan Thi, Ashley WiersmaNarrated by: Emily Woo ZellerThis was an amazing story of an amazing person. This tells of her life before the bombs, lying in the morgue while alive for three days, her time after while trying to heal, the painful treatments, her personal mental torment, the life in her country making her act as a mouth piece against the Americans when it wasn't the American bombs, trying to find love with scars, finding a new religion and being thrown out by her family, and escaping to Canada. All was so detailed that you felt like you were there. Very tense and exciting. Emotional and dramatic. The narration was perfect! Couldn't be a better narrator than this performer for this book! She was spot on! She really carried the emotions, the pain, loss, and excitement well. The book does have quite a bit of religion in it about half way through but this is important for her story.