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Title: Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair : One Family's Passage Through the Child Welfare System by Susan Sheehan ISBN: 0-679-75450-4 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 06 September, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Devastating!
Comment: I devoured this book in one night. I was shocked and saddened by the story of this young woman and her family's history with the New York Foster Care system. The thing that surprised me most about the book is the family's unwavering hope that someday they would be reunited, despite the horrible poverty and dysfunction in their lives.
Rating: 5
Summary: Moving story
Comment: This book was an account of a young woman's life from early childhood to young adulthood. Crystal Taylor and her siblings were shuffled from foster home to foster home, a pattern that was similar to that of their mother's life style. Crystal became involved in theft, drugs, and sex. She became a teenage parent at 14 years of age. Crystal and her siblings were a part of the welfare social system, as well as Crystal's baby boy. "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair" is a moving story of an individual's experience. It is an eye opener of the effects and drawbacks of poverty in a life.
Rating: 4
Summary: RESOUNDING SORROW
Comment: The tragic tone of "Crystal's" life could not be made more clear than if one was living it as well. Psychotic and confused, Crystal is all too familiar with an unstable home life. Her mother's boyfriend impregnates her and Crystal, barely out of elementary school becomes a casualty of the system. She makes the rounds of hospitals, treatment centers and schools. At each stop she wonders what place exists for her and her child.
This author provides a calming voice of reason to Crystal's plight. To her credit, she does not villify or condemn even the harshest of people and conditions. She writes in a tone of respect and even acceptance. If nothing else, this book is a reminder of each person's duty to care about the needs of others.
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Title: Boy He Left Behind: A Man's Search for His Lost Father by Mark Matousek ISBN: 1573221546 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 20 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc ISBN: 0684863871 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 04 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Is There No Place on Earth for Me? by Susan Sheehan ISBN: 0394713788 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 May, 1983 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Price of Motherhood: Why the Most Important Job in the World is Still the Least Valued by Ann Crittenden ISBN: 0805066195 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: There Are No Children Here : The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in The Other America by Alex Kotlowitz ISBN: 0385265565 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 05 January, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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