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Simon And Schuster Troubled: A Memoir Of Foster Care, Family, And Social Class
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Brand: Simon And Schuster
EAN: 9781982168537
MPN: 9781982168537
Categoría: Libros y revistas
Libro: Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class (978-1-982168-53-7) de Rob Henderson (Simon and Schuster ) Comprar Libros de Otros .. NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this "affecting...intriguing...heartbreaking" ( Booklist) coming-of-age memoir, Rob Henderson vividly recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, attending elite universities, and pioneering the concept of "luxury beliefs"-ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class while inflicting costs on the less fortunate. Rob Henderson was born to a drug-addicted mother and a father he never met, ultimately shuttling between ten different foster homes in California. When he was adopted into a loving family, he hoped that life would finally be stable and safe. But divorce, tragedy, poverty, and violence marked his adolescent and teen years, propelling Henderson to join the military upon completing high school. A "vivid, insightful, poignant, and powerful" (Nicholas A. Christakis, author of Blueprint ) portrait of shattered families, desperation, and determination, Troubled recounts Henderson's expectation-defying young life and juxtaposes his story with those of his friends who wound up incarcerated or killed. As he navigates the peaks and valleys of social class, Henderson finds that he remains on the outside looking in. His greatest achievements-a military career, an undergraduate education from Yale, a PhD from Cambridge-feel like hollow measures of success. He argues that stability at home is more important than external accomplishments, and he illustrates the ways the most privileged among us benefit from a set of social standards that actively harm the most vulnerable. 0
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EAN: 9781982168537
MPN: 9781982168537
Categoría: Libros y revistas
Libro: Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class (978-1-982168-53-7) de Rob Henderson (Simon and Schuster ) Comprar Libros de Otros .. NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this "affecting...intriguing...heartbreaking" ( Booklist) coming-of-age memoir, Rob Henderson vividly recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, attending elite universities, and pioneering the concept of "luxury beliefs"-ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class while inflicting costs on the less fortunate. Rob Henderson was born to a drug-addicted mother and a father he never met, ultimately shuttling between ten different foster homes in California. When he was adopted into a loving family, he hoped that life would finally be stable and safe. But divorce, tragedy, poverty, and violence marked his adolescent and teen years, propelling Henderson to join the military upon completing high school. A "vivid, insightful, poignant, and powerful" (Nicholas A. Christakis, author of Blueprint ) portrait of shattered families, desperation, and determination, Troubled recounts Henderson's expectation-defying young life and juxtaposes his story with those of his friends who wound up incarcerated or killed. As he navigates the peaks and valleys of social class, Henderson finds that he remains on the outside looking in. His greatest achievements-a military career, an undergraduate education from Yale, a PhD from Cambridge-feel like hollow measures of success. He argues that stability at home is more important than external accomplishments, and he illustrates the ways the most privileged among us benefit from a set of social standards that actively harm the most vulnerable. 0
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