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Troubled : a memoir of foster care, family, and social class / Rob Henderson.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection HV881 .H46 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Henderson, Rob Kim, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foster children--United States.
- Foster children.
- Henderson, Rob Kim.
- Social classes--United States.
- Social classes.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- autobiographies (literary works)
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 304 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC, 2024.
- Summary:
- In this unflinching portrait of shattered families, desperation and determination, the author, born to a drug-addicted mother, recounts growing up in foster care, and despite his military career, undergraduate education from Yale and a PhD from Cambridge,he argues that stability at home is more important than external accomplishments.
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Henderson, Rob Kim. Troubled
- ISBN:
- 9781982168537
- 1982168536
- OCLC:
- 1384410619
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