The Boy in the Window

A Mennonite Memoir

De: Bobby Eaton

Narrado por: Andrew Weaver

Growing up as a Ragland boy meant a one-way street to nowhere — until the Mennonites moved to town.

Robert Ragland toiled every day on his family’s Appalachian tobacco farm as a young boy. His father, an impoverished and illiterate sharecropper, spent his earnings on alcohol and beat his children and wife constantly.

And Robert couldn’t take one more strike.

Meanwhile, Mennonite families had moved to town, providing food and comfort when Robert’s mother broke her leg. Witnessing compassion from these people, Robert wondered: What would it feel like to belong to a group where I was wanted, loved, and appreciated? What if I could break free my father’s abuse and the Ragland destiny?

What if I could become one of them?

Desperate to escape his lot in life as a white trash failure, Robert joins the Mennonite church, gets married, and becomes a father. Despite his new life, Robert hides dark secrets and deep wounds from his Mennonite family.

The Boy in the Window is a powerful true account of heartbreak, defeat, and failure. But most of all, it’s an inspirational story of redemption, healing, and hope.

©2020 Bobby D. Eaton (P)2020 Bobby D. Eaton

Very Inspiring and portrays our God so well!

Well written!
Well read. And God Glorifying! Bringing out the beautiful truth of God and the true faith without directing unreasonable condemnation on denominations. Much more an account of the journey Bobby as well as many are taken on as we seek to know our God.

Very touching and inspiring

This book is very touching, but also very inspiring on how it is possible to overcome hardships in life. Allowing Christ to change our hearts rather than attempting to earn goodness is a trap so many of us fall into.

Looking for someone who had it awful and God STILL came through?

That’s it, the title of this review says it all.
Read the book.
Praise Jesus.

steadfast love of God

That was a sad but gripping story! praise God for happy endings.I highly recommend it.

Awesome story!

The Boy In The Window is an incredibly awesome story of God's redemption!! Once you start listening you won't want to stop until you're done! The reader does a great job reading and it is a gripping storyline! I would definitely recommend this story!