Southern Author Dr. Debi Toporoff.

Dr. Debi Toporoff a southern author writes for young adults and juveniles

Oops! Wrong Family

Debi Toporoff

Based on the author's life story-- The book portrays hope to those who are hurting: whether through abuse, domestic violence, abandonment or even rejection. There is hope for the hurting and freedom to face the future. We can not change our families or history but we can change the history of our hearts. This book will make you laugh, cry and get mad at the same time and delivers a message of hope to readers everywhere.

by Debi Toporoff

Despite its fictional genre, “When God Came Down” is a delightfully anointed book with a message. The Word of God shines brightly through an exciting journey taken from the book of Genesis with Jody, a sixteen-year-old young man. Jody explores then and now, along with how God is involved in all that matters in life, including his decisions, what he says, and what he does. Even though his family finds it hard to believe his supernatural experience, the most important thing is that Jody believes—isn’t that just the way it is? Read, laugh, study, and most of all enjoy the ledge side adventure of this wide-eyed character. Jody will be one of many characters in children stories and books that will be coming from this renown southern author—Dr. Debi Toporoff.

Oops! Wrong Family

A Haunting Story of Abuse, Redemption, and Recovery

Dr. Debi Toporoff tells a disturbing story of a childhood of parental abuse. It is her desire to help other victims, and survivors experience wholeness. Debi’s is a story of redemption and recovery. It is story of survival, of working through the pain and suffering of physical abuse. She tells of a father’s neglect, and a mother’s irrational behavior.

Debi graphically relates alarming stories of her mother’s tirades and the consequence of the beatings that followed. She describes the feelings of mistrust, insecurity, worthlessness, inadequacy and the pain of loneliness.

Debi’s early life and personal dysfunction was the result of the effects of abuse, parental rejection, the damage of being berated, the emotional scars of continuous isolation, and of the failure of her parents as caregivers to provide needed food and clothing.

Along the way several foster families, caring teachers, and co-workers helped Debi learn to trust, to reach out in love, and to understand the message of Jesus, his forgiveness, unconditional love, and hope. This is a story of rejection, redemption, and renewal.

Today abuse is being accepted as a major social problem, and is recognized as the cause of scores of people’s suffering and the personal problems they encounter. Authorities are now facing up to the prevalence and significance of child abuse, physical, sexual, and emotional, and of the potential long term psychological and mental behavioral issues that stem from these abusive experiences.

It is Debi’s concern that through the telling of her personal story the hurt of those dealing with the memory and pain of abuse will be eased. It is also her prayer that the book will minister to those looking to understand what children suffering from abuse have experienced .

“Oops! Wrong Family” is disturbing, haunting, and memorable. The book is a testimony of survival and of emotional pain healed through God’s redemptive love and salvation. It communicates an important message, and is a rewarding read. Highly recommended.

Reviewed by Richard R. Blake





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