Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk A Caseworker's Story - Paperback
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Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk A Caseworker's Story - Paperback
$19.00
by Marc Parent (Author)
"An absorbing piece of narrative nonfiction . . . A rare glimpse of what it is like to man these front lines of the war on child abuse--and what it does to a person's soul. . . . Devastating [and] mesmerizing."--The Los Angeles Times
Featuring a new Afterword by the author
Front Jacket
Why does an infant die of malnutrition? Why does an eight-year-old hold a knife to his brother's throat? Or a mother push her cherished daughter twenty-three floors to her death? Marc Parent, a city caseworker, searched the streets--and his heart--for the answers, and shares them in this powerful, vivid, beautifully written book.
WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR
Author Biography
Marc Parent is the author of Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize as well as a New Visions nominee and a NEBA Honorary Selection, and Believing It All: What My Children Taught Me About Trout Fishing, Jelly Toast, and Life. He has written for The New York Times and USA Today, among other publications.
Number of Pages: 400
Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN
Publication Date: January 27, 1998
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