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Synopsis
This stunning memoir, based on an award-winning essay written when the author was 17, shares a tumultuous life story that is sadly familiar to the millions of children in foster care. Placed in the system at the age of four, Ashley Rhodes-Courter endured over a dozen foster homes before being adopted by a loving family at the age of 12. Rhodes-Courter chronicles time spent with both loving relatives and devastatingly cruel foster parents with a clarity and simplicity that is powerful and moving. Although her story has a happy ending, the adjustment to a permanent placement wasn't smooth, and reveals the incredible challenges foster children face in learning to trust again. Inspiring, bracing, and unshakably honest, this story promises a thought-provoking, tear-streaked read.
| Size | | Length: | 304 pages | | Height: | 8.8 in | | Width: | 5.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 14.1 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Two days compete for the worst day in my life: The first is the day I was taken from my mother; the second is the day I arrived at the Mosses' foster home four years later."
Industry Reviews
"The author's ability to form intelligent, open-minded conclusions about her traumatic childhood demonstrates her remarkable control and insight, and although there are plenty of wrenching moments, she succeeds not in attracting pity but in her stated intention, of drawing attention to the children who currently share the plight that she herself overcame."
(01/07/2008)
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