The Silenced Path

Based on the true story of Getruda Peters, this poignant, unflinching novel exposes the abuse and neglect she suffered as a resident of a government-run institution in Ontario in the 1980s. After witnessing the brutal murder of her father, followed by her mother abandoning her, young Gerda and her siblings are forced to leave the insular world of their Old Colony Mennonite community. Separated from her brothers and sister, she is shuffled from foster home to foster home and endures bullying...