When a Toy Dog Became a Wolf and the Moon Broke Curfew…

ABOUT THE BOOK

How does a girl become an empowered woman?

Born when girls were to be housewives and mothers, a Dutch “daddy’s girl” in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam learns about female empowerment when her father is deported to a POW camp in Germany and her mother joins the Resistance.

Freedoms taken for granted are eroded with escalating brutality by men with swastika armbands who aim to exterminate those they deem “inferior” and those who do not obey.

“Don’t let them make you afraid,” her mother says, when their city is plunged into darkness in the final months. “The warmth and the Light will return.”

As mother and daughter fuse in a symbiotic bond, she absorbs her mother’s strength and faith. She learns about moral choice and forced silence. Her hidden Jewish “stepsister” is betrayed and her mother interrogated at gunpoint. Mother and daughter suffer near-starvation and narrowly escape death on the day of liberation.

When her father returns, a baby sister arrives. The war trauma causes her parents to consider emigration.  She struggles with teenage defiance and anger and embraces competitive swimming.  But when the family sets sail for a new life in Australia, she has discovered the woman she wants to become.

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BOOK AWARDS

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Hendrika deVries was born and raised in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

She became a swimming champion, wife and young mother in Adelaide, South Australia.

She gave birth to her third baby, got her B.A., and earned a Phi Beta Kappa, in Denver, Colorado.

A move to Washington D.C. precipitated a search for meaning and a spiritual quest that led to her immersion in the Depth Psychology of Carl Jung, an M.T.S in theological studies at Virginia Theological Seminary, a journey to Greece in search of the mythical Goddess and a move to Santa Barbara, California, for a degree in psychology.

A Jungian-oriented Marriage and Family therapist for over thirty years, she has used dreams and intuitive imagination to facilitate recovery and healing of trauma, address life transitions and relational issues, and empower women.

She enjoys public speaking, and as a teacher and lecturer at Pacifica Graduate Institute helped students explore the archetypal and cultural patterns in their life stories.

The mother of three grown children and four millennial grandchildren, she lives with her husband, Harlan, in Santa Barbara, where she writes and swims.

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