Another Place at the Table - Couverture souple

Harrison, Kathy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1585422827 ISBN 13 : 9781585422821

Editeur : Penguin Publishing Group, 2004

Synopsis

The startling and ultimately uplifting narrative of one woman's thirteen-year experience as a foster parent.

For more than a decade, Kathy Harrison has sheltered a shifting cast of troubled youngsters-the offspring of prostitutes and addicts; the sons and daughters of abusers; and teenage parents who aren't equipped for parenthood. All this, in addition to raising her three biological sons and two adopted daughters. What would motivate someone to give herself over to constant, largely uncompensated chaos? For Harrison, the answer is easy.

Another Place at the Table is the story of life at our social services' front lines, centered on three children who, when they come together in Harrison's home, nearly destroy it. It is the frank first-person story of a woman whose compassionate best intentions for a child are sometimes all that stand between violence and redemption.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kathy Harrison has been a foster parent to nearly one hundred children. In 1996, she and her husband were named Massachusetts Foster Parents of the Year, and in 2002, they received the prestigious Goldie Foster Award.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Publishing Group
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1585422827
• ISBN 13: 9781585422821
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible