Susan Sheehan

Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair

One Family's Passage Through the Child Welfare System

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On October 7, 1984, Crystal Taylor gave birth to a baby boy whom she named Daquan. Crystal was only fourteen. She was living with a boyfriend whom she was too young to marry, and her mother was addicted to heroin and cocaine. So under the law, Crystal and Daquan became wards of New York State's foster-care system-a sprawling, often slipshod web of boarding facilities, halfway houses, and paid surrogates that cares for almost 60,000 children. Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair is the story of what happened to Crystal and Daquan, as well as to Crystal's mother, who herself had grown up in various foster homes. It is a story of three genera… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-8041-5109-2
EAN: 9780804151092
Produktnummer: 15721691
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 192 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'797 KB

Über den Autor

Susan Sheehan is the author of eight works of nonfiction. In 1983, she received a Pulitzer Prize for Is There No Place on Earth For Me? She was also a staff writer at The New Yorker.