A01=Stacey Patton
abuse
adoption
african american experience
american slavery
Author_Stacey Patton
black childhood
black experience
Category=DNB
child abuse
child welfare system
childhood
coming of age memoir
corporal punishment
domestic abuse
emotional abuse
emotional trauma
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eq_biography-true-stories
eq_isMigrated=1
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eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
foster care
generational trauma
healing
journalism
neglect
personal struggle
physical abuse
race
race in america
redemption
rehabilitation
self-discovery
slavery
strength
trauma
Product details
- ISBN 9780743293112
- Weight: 431g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2008
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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An astonishing coming-of-age memoir by a young woman who survived the foster care system to become an award-winning journalist On a rainy night in November 1999, a shoeless Stacey Patton, promising student at NYU, approached her adoptive parents' house with a gun in her hand. She wanted to kill them. Or so she thought. No one would ever imagine that the vibrant, smart, and attractive Stacey had a childhood from hell. After all, with God-fearing, house-proud, and hardworking adoptive parents, she appeared to beat the odds. But her mother was tyrannical, and her father turned a blind eye to the years of abuse his wife heaped on their love-starved little girl. Now in her beautiful memoir, Stacey links her experience to the legacy of American slavery and successfully frames her understanding of why her good adoptive parents did terrible things to her by realizing they had terrible things done to them.
