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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
Warner Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
a"Regina Louise's mother abandoned her at birth, her father barely knows she's alive, and even the state isn't there to protect her from the horrors unfolding daily in the illegal foster home where her mother left her. Clothed in rags, fed just enough food to keep her alive, and beaten at the slightest pretext, she makes a pact with God: If the beatings get worse, she'll know she is meant to leave. But when at age eleven Regina runs away from the...
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