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The Gentle House
The "Gentle House" by Anna Perrott Rose. 1954 Book Club Edition hardcover published by The Riverside Press, Cambridge/Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. The author's second book, about Andris, a young Latvian orphan.
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177 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1954
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February 19, 2012
I fell in love with this book years ago when my Mother read it to me as a child. It is a book about how Anna Perrott Rose, then a teacher, decides to adopt a DP,Displaced Person. In this case it was a young boy.
It strikes a warm chord in my life because it describes the hardship this young boy went through to get to the United States. My mother was also a Displaced Person. She was also, like this young boy, from Latvia.
Once I became an adult I realised how much she went through but did not tell us. Not directly. Instead she read me this book.
The Gentle House is a true story. I hope that someday it will return to print because it is so heartwarming.
On the copyright page it states that some of the chapters of this book appeared in the Ladies Home Journal under the title of "Frightened Boy".
It strikes a warm chord in my life because it describes the hardship this young boy went through to get to the United States. My mother was also a Displaced Person. She was also, like this young boy, from Latvia.
Once I became an adult I realised how much she went through but did not tell us. Not directly. Instead she read me this book.
The Gentle House is a true story. I hope that someday it will return to print because it is so heartwarming.
On the copyright page it states that some of the chapters of this book appeared in the Ladies Home Journal under the title of "Frightened Boy".
December 31, 2016
This book has really stuck with me. I think of it often.
August 8, 2025
Mostly a sweet and moving book. The writing was friendly and conversational, empathetic and caring without being shmalzy. It was a well-structured story. I only knew wish I understood more of the narrator’s internal experience.
October 19, 2023
This was a gem of a find from a Library book sale, the name caught my attention and I'm so happy that I bought it! It's a true story from 1954 of a Latvian boy who was displaced during wartime and experienced horrible things there, and was brought to America and found a gentle house with a school teacher who loved him as her own and never gave up on him like some others had. Such a heartwrenching heartwarming read. I think everyone who reads this book will wonder what kind of Adult Andris turned out to be, but based on the fact that he now had a loving family who was so patient and kind to him, I'm going to believe a really good one!😊
October 22, 2007
I read a condensed version of this book and really enjoyed it. It was a reminder of the great value of patient, loving parenting.
October 17, 2007
heartwarming...:-)
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