Orphan: A True Story of Abandonment, Abuse, and Redemption

"Orphan" starts out with the police breaking into a house, finding a three year old girl crying in the kitchen with human waste smeared all over herself,and four year old Roger holding a dead baby,trying to feed it corn flakes.You don't think it could get any worse than this for Roger Dean Kiser,but it does."Orphan" will break your heart at what this kid had to go through in life.Beatings,Sexual Abuse,and Abandonment.There... Read Full Review

I watched this man as he wrote this entire book. He sat at his computer a minimum of twenty hours a day, for more than two years and one half years.I sat and watched as this man, who has probably never cried a tear in fifty years, cry like a baby after completing each and every one of the stories inside this book.He is a very kind man, but he is a man who has never allowed anyone to truly enter inside his heart. I do not think... Read Full Review

While reading this book I experienced a wide range of emotions drummed up by the detailed descriptions and "childs-eye" view of the world portrayed by Mr. Kiser. Scenes were playing in my mind with extreme clarity and I felt like I knew the characters by the end of the book. This is ranked a 5 rather than a 4 or 3 because of the author's ability to put me in his shoes so that I would laugh and cry along with him and his orphan... Read Full Review

This compelling, haunting and sometimes shocking book, chronicles Roger's childhood in an orphanage. Many of the scenes are not pretty, but Roger's amazing resiliency and presence of mind as a young child points to an inner strength that enabled him to overcome these horrors. This book proves that despite the injustices Roger faced, good can overcome evil. It's a great real life tale that either will make you appreciate... Read Full Review

I am continually in awe of Roger Dean Kiser's incredible stories. Each one touches some part of my heart and soul. His stories capture me from the first sentence and leave me breathless as I deal with the incredible emotions that well up from inside me.But I am even more in awe of Roger as a person. There is no one in this world who has more "reason" to use his past as an excuse for present problems than Roger. However, instead... Read Full Review