Troubled : a memoir of foster care, family, and social class
(2024)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
NEW MEMOIR/HENDERSON,R
1 Hold on 1 Copy
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Gallery Books, 2024
EDITION
First Gallery Books hardcover edition
DESCRIPTION
xxi, 304 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781982168537, 1982168536 :, 1982168536, 9781982168537
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Until your heart explodes -- The parent trap -- Burnout -- No matter where you end up -- Little boy -- Stray dogs -- What's expected of you -- Potentially deleterious effects -- Who is GI Bill, GI Joe's brother? -- Problem child -- Luxury beliefs -- Twistable turnable man
"Rob Henderson, a doctoral candidate in social psychology at Cambridge, reflects on his childhood in foster care, how he narrowly escaped a broken system, and the only hope for disenfranchised kids across America: family"--