Day 17 – A book you’ve read that changed your views on something.

I can't think of any books I've read that have changed my views on something. I have, however, read books that give me a deeper understanding of what life was like for people in certain situations.

The most recent book of this kinds that I've read was Hard Passage by Arthur Kroeger. It tells the story of his family's life as Russian Mennonites from their beginnings in czarist Russia, through World War I, the Russian Revolution, their immigration to Canada and their struggles to get established in a new country during the drought and depression. I found this book fascinating as my ancestors were also Russian Mennonites but my family immigrated to Canada prior to World War I from a different colony about 200 km upriver. It's strange, but the older you get the more you want to know your family's history. This book helped me understand some aspects of my own history.