Natalia hears the roar of the helicopter gunships every night. She sees the flash as their missiles explode. What if they make a mistake and fire at our house? Why are they killing so many priests, even Archbishop Romero? What happened to cousin Edgardo?

God Was Afraid is the story of a child named Natalia living in San Salvador, El Salvador’s capital and largest city, during the civil war that devastated that country in the 1980s. Her middle class neighborhood is not safe from the violence. Everyone is afraid, perhaps even God.