Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk A Caseworker's Story - 9758

“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 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.
ASIN: 0449912353
VSKU: LFV.0449912353.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Marc Parent|Anna Quindlen
Binding: Paperback