The Apple Tree Wish: Made by a Fatherless Girl

This memoir describes the emotional pain of growing up fatherless and reveals God's amazing love at work to heal childhood hurts, even through circumstances of rejection.

When author Maria Martinez was just three years old, she heard the word "illegitimate" for the fi rst time. Though she was too young to understanding its meaning as it applied to her, she knew it made her feel different and ashamed.

In The Apple Tree Wish, Martinez discusses her life's events being branded an illegitimat...