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Another Place at the Table
- Author
- Kathy Harrison
- Narrator
- Pam Ward
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 11 September 2018
- Run Time
- 7 hours 16 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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.
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Details
- Author
- Kathy Harrison
- Narrator
- Pam Ward
- Duration
- 7 hours 16 minutes
- Release Date
- 11 September 2018
- ISBN
- 9781977376299
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Relationships and families: advice and issues, Social welfare and social services, Memoirs, Society and culture: general, Adoption and fostering, Adoption and fostering: advice and issues, Parenting: advice and issues
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.
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