Silent Tears

A Journey of Hope in a Chinese Orphanage

By: Kay Bratt

Narrated by: Shannon McManus

When her family relocated to rural China in 2003, Kay Bratt was thrust into a new world, one where boys were considered more valuable than girls and poverty and the one-child policy had created an epidemic of abandoned infants. As a volunteer at a local orphanage, Bratt witnessed conditions that were unfathomable to a middle-class mother of two from South Carolina.

Based on Bratt’s diary of her four years at the orphanage, Silent Tears offers a searing account of young lives rendered disposable. In the face of an implacable system, Bratt found ways to work within (and around) the rules to make a better future for the children, whom she came to love. The book offers no easy answers.

While often painful in its clear-sightedness, Silent Tears balances the sadness and struggles of life in the orphanage with moments of joy, optimism, faith, and victory. It is the story of hundreds of children - and of one woman who never planned on becoming a hero but became one anyway.

©2011 Kay Bratt (P)2012 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Eye opening!

Enjoyed the detailed journal entries by Kay Bratt of her experiences in China, specifically at the orphanage. Commend her efforts to be an advocate for any improvements in their surroundings and care. Appreciate all the volunteers who are making a difference!

Good, but somewhat sad

I learned a lot from this book. Other cultures are so different than our ways here in the U.S. It takes a lot of courage and compassion to do what this lady did. God bless her.

Great Informative Tead

I was thoroughly impressed with the info and honesty of this author. I will never visit China but I know some adopted children from there. One never wonders about foreign adoptions but I am glad to get inspirations about how Kay and her family made them part of her life even when it was difficult. God bless you.

This was a moving acct of life in a Chinese Orphanage

This is a valuable read for anyone who would like to read a first hand account of life in an orphanage in China. It was very informing and moving for me. My BFF was adopted to the USA from Seoul, Korea, in 1963, while my son helped in an orphanage in Taiwan in 2006 called The Home of God's Love. Two great people Ted and Beverly Stiles started this orphanage 45 years ago...back in 1972...and it's still thriving today in 2017! The struggles these babies in China faced in 2007 were horrific. Thanks to the awesome author of this book who started loving on the Chinese people as a lowly 2 hour a week volunteer...and grew into David facing Goliath as she attempted to create changes and enrich this Chinese orphanage! Thank you for all of your love and work that you have given and continue to give to this people group!!

A heartbreaking eye opener

Living in a first world country, I was oblivious to the terrible things that are going on in third world countries, a true eye opener