A CRY FROM THE STREETS
By Jeannette Lukasse
Monarch. 208 pages
ISBN 1 85424 651 8
The foreword to this book describes it as 'pleasant and entertaining'. I disagree!
How the stories of Brazilian street children, suffering under police brutality, family rejection, sexual exploitation, drug addiction and lack of hope, can ever make for a pleasant read I do not know. True, the author's smooth autobiographical style and simple language make for a quick and easy read on one level, but the reader is left feeling distinctly uneasy at the scale and depth of the suffering these children endure. Yet there is also cause for great hope: stories of individual lives, families and communities transformed by the power of the gospel. And of ordinary people serving an extraordinary God.
