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Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In this unflinching portrait of shattered families, desperation and determination, the author, born to a drug-addicted mother, recounts growing up in foster care, and despite his military career, undergraduate education from Yale and a PhD from Cambridge,he argues that stability at home is more important than external accomplishments.
''In this raw coming-of-age memoir, in the vein of The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, The Other Wes Moore,...
Author
Publisher
Bolden, an Agate imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This is the follow-up to Somebodys Someone, Regina Louises harsh, often brutal, but always compelling debut memoir about growing up in the US foster-care system. In this book, Louise once again draws on her experience as one of societys abandoned children to tell how she emerged from the cruel, unjust system, not only to survive, but to flourish. After years of jumping from one fleeting, often abusive home to the next, Louise meets a counselor named...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant, funny, generation-defining memoir about the double bind of crafting perfect adversity narratives for highly selective institutions, while fumbling through the far murkier reality of actual life in foster care and inpatient mental health treatment. As a child, Emi Nietfeld was caught between a hoarder mother who got her put on antipsychotic medication, but was also the only person to believe she was exceptional, and a state system exemplified...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
c2008
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Ashley spent nine years in foster care after being taken away from her mother. She endured many caseworkers, moving from school to school and manipulative, humiliating and abusive treatment from one foster family. See how she survives and eventually thrives against the odds.
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