Broken Branches: An Immigrant Girl's Search for a Better Life in Canada

An Immigrant Girl's Search for a Better Life When Margaret Hoffman was a little girl, doctors expected her to die before she was ten years old. However, despite many health problems, including an undetected case of Celiac disease, she has thrived in her nineties. Since emigrating to Canada from her native Norway as a child she has overcome many personal and family hardships to enjoy a healthy and happy life. In Broken An Immigrant Child's Search for a Better Life, Hoffman chronicles the early death of her mother, a reunion in Canada with a father she never really knew, homesteading on the Prairies, difficulties with a demented husband and her search for happiness at an advanced age. Hoffman also recalls how she endured the Great Depression and World War II, and survived on her wits and determination while moving between Saskatchewan and British Columbia. Ultimately, she demonstrates how people of any age can overcome the most difficult circumstances to get the most out of life.