Growing up in the vast Paraguayan wilderness of thorn trees, snakes, and unreached indigenous tribes that threaten his family\'s survival, Rudolf Duerksen takes the reader on a journey of the harsh realities faced by Mennonite settlers in South America.
Told from the perspective of the first generation born to Russian Mennonite refugees that settled in the Gran Chaco, Death at the Grass Huts is a memoir about Human Endeavor and reliance on God\'s Grace in the face of adversity.
Growing up in the vast Paraguayan wilderness of thorn trees, snakes, and unreached indigenous tribes that threaten his family\'s survival, Rudolf Duerksen takes the reader on a journey of the harsh realities faced by Mennonite settlers in South America
