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Détails
| Genre/forme : | Biography |
|---|---|
| Personne nommée : | Andrew Bridge; Andrew Bridge |
| Type d’ouvrage : | Biographie |
| Format : | Livre |
| Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : |
Andrew Bridge |
| ISBN : | 9781401303228 1401303226 |
| Numéro OCLC : | 182630640 |
| Description : | 306 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Responsabilité : | Andrew Bridge. |
Résumé :
Relates the author's harrowing family circumstances that led to his placement in the equally daunting foster-care system, and describes how he beat the odds through high academic achievement.
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Great, great book
First time writer, Andrew Bridge, has written a stunning beautiful memoir about his childhood, first with his mentally ill mother then in foster care. The writing is luminous. The story is unforgettable. It is a searing reminder of the love exists between a parent and child, and how often we fail...
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First time writer, Andrew Bridge, has written a stunning beautiful memoir about his childhood, first with his mentally ill mother then in foster care. The writing is luminous. The story is unforgettable. It is a searing reminder of the love exists between a parent and child, and how often we fail to respect that love.
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A Wonderful and Important Memoir
The book has not be released yet but the publisher has printed a large number of advance reading copies. Hope's Boy is a beautifully written book about Andrew Bridge's childhood, his young and uneducated mother who succumbed to mental illness and his childhood in foster care. Bridge is a lawyer --...
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The book has not be released yet but the publisher has printed a large number of advance reading copies. Hope's Boy is a beautifully written book about Andrew Bridge's childhood, his young and uneducated mother who succumbed to mental illness and his childhood in foster care. Bridge is a lawyer -- who went to Harvard Law School and who works for children in foster care. He has written an extraordinarily perceptive book about his own childhood and about the lives of thousands of children in foster care today. Considering the subject matter and his own experiences, Bridge's style is wonderfully restrained offering simple yet poignant descriptions of his own struggle and ultimate success. An important call for bettering the lives of our most vulnerable kids. I highly, highly recommend it.
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Powerful and Beautiful
I was lucky to have a friend lend me his Hope's Boy ARC. An extraordinary memoir by a first time author who spent nearly his entire childhood in foster care. Bridge offers a straight forward, cleanly written story of the daily lives of children who are by the state and held in its care. He reminds us...
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I was lucky to have a friend lend me his Hope's Boy ARC. An extraordinary memoir by a first time author who spent nearly his entire childhood in foster care. Bridge offers a straight forward, cleanly written story of the daily lives of children who are by the state and held in its care. He reminds us of the power of love and the joy of forgiveness.
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An Honest, Uncompromising Memoir
A friend of mine who's works at an independent book store gave me an advance reading copy of Hope's Boy. I read it in three days. Bridge has written the incredible story of his mother, her final fall into psychosis and his childhood in foster care. It's a devastating written story about the binds...
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A friend of mine who's works at an independent book store gave me an advance reading copy of Hope's Boy. I read it in three days. Bridge has written the incredible story of his mother, her final fall into psychosis and his childhood in foster care. It's a devastating written story about the binds between a mother and child, and Bridge's ultimate success despite the profound loss of his mother. I especially admired his ability to describe his mother's mental collapse in precise language -- which he himself witnessed -- free of the overly sentimental writing we see so much of today. You put the book down and it still stays with you. Bridge has done an incredible job.
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The Power of Resilience in Surviving a Broken Foster Care System
I was delighted to read Hope's Boy. It reminds me why I’m a social worker. Connections with others, and the need for them, are at our core. They are powerful and enduring, as is the sense of loss when they are broken. In Bridge’s case, social workers and the foster care system broke his physical...
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I was delighted to read Hope's Boy. It reminds me why I’m a social worker. Connections with others, and the need for them, are at our core. They are powerful and enduring, as is the sense of loss when they are broken. In Bridge’s case, social workers and the foster care system broke his physical connections to his mother and grandmother. As a social worker, our role is to support, honor and do everything we can to sustain the core bond between parent and child. We failed to do that for Bridge. Despite our failures, Bridge held close his memories of Hope, developing his own extraordinary capacity for resilience. He lends a powerful voice to so many foster children who have learned to “be still,” who continue to long for their own enduring bond with a forever parent. This is a wonderful reminder of our responsibility to nurture resilience and hope in all children. A must-read for social workers and others who work with or on behalf of children in the child welfare system.
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