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Garbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir - 1877

Garbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir - 1877

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"Must read for carers of children!" - Barbara Campbell ___ MIDWEST BOOK AWARD-WINNER INDEPENDENT BOOK PUBLISHER AWARD-WINNER READERS FAVORITE BOOK AWARD-WINNER PINNACLE BOOK ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS-WINNER BEVERLY HILLS BOOK AWARD-WINNER Shenandoah Chefalo is on a wholly dysfunctional journey through a childhood with neglectful, drug-and alcohol addicted parents. She endures numerous moves in the middle of the night with just minutes to pack, multiple changes in schools, hunger, cruelty, and loneliness. Finally at the age of 13, Shen had had enough. After being abandoned by her mother for months at her grandmother’s retirement community, she asks to be put into foster care. Surely she would fare better at a stable home than living with her mother? It turns out that it was not the storybook ending she had hoped for. When a car accident lands her in the hospital with grave injuries and no one comes to visit her during her three-week stay, she realizes she is truly all alone in the world. Overcoming many adversities, Shen became part of the 3% of all foster care children who get into college, and the 1% who graduate. Despite her numerous achievements in life though, she still suffers from the long-term effects of neglect, and the coping skills that she adapted in her childhood are not always productive in her adult life. Garbage Bag Suitcase is not only the inspiring and hair-raising story of one woman’s journey to over- come her desolate childhood, but it also presents grass-root solutions on how to revamp the broken foster care system.
ASIN: 1943995036
VSKU: BVV.1943995036.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Chefalo, Shenandoah
Binding: Paperback

ISBN:

BVV.1943995036.G

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