Another Place at the Table

Harrison, Kathy

ISBN 10: 1585422827 / ISBN 13: 9781585422821

Editore: TarcherPerigee, 2004

Codice articolo 1585422827-4-24701563

Riassunto:

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.

Informazioni sull?autore: 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.

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Titolo: Another Place at the Table
Casa editrice: TarcherPerigee
Data di pubblicazione: 2004
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Fair