Hope's Boy
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.29 (903 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1401309747 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Today, Andrew lives in New York City. . He has dedicated his life to giving a voice to the thousands of children tragically reliving his youth by defending the rights of children nationwide. Andrew Bridge earned a scholarship to Wesleyan, and went on to Harvard Law School and was a Fulbright Scholar
In his narration of this unending nightmare, Bridge shows particular skill in portraying his isolation and the defenses he constructed to survive it. . Bridge's obsessive focus on his loneliness and his two mothers is so intense that a more balanced picture of his life fails to emerge and his attachment to another foster child remains unexplained. At 17, as he prepared to leave foster care for college and freedom, Bridge finally had a reunion with the mother he never stopped missing. From Publishers Weekly In this memoir of a decade spent in foster care, Bridge illuminates the horrors of a system that, in its clumsy attempts to save children, he argues, all too frequently condemns them to physical and emotional abuse. (Feb.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. The state eventually transferred him to a foster family dominated by an obese, bullying Est
Hope's Boy is Haunting and Unforgettable I was deeply moved by "Hope's Boy," Andrew Bridge's haunting elegy of a childhood that seemed to be lost forever when the author, at age 7, became a ward of the State after being taken from the arms of his young mother on a street corner in North Hollywood, California. Mr. Bridge's unsparing chronicle of his experiences on the front lines of our nation's foster care system -- including his time in a facility that seemed more like a prison camp, and his rearing by a sadistic foster mother, wh. Disturbing and heartwrenching Karen Lausa This book held my interest to the very last page, but only when I read the epilogue did I shed a few tears of rage.All the loneliness, the cruelty and chronic absence of nurturing and support in Andrew Bridge's life did not fill me with despair as much as the description of his fight as an adult, and an accomplished lawyer, to fight back against the very system that held him in bondage for his entire adolescence.As a former court appointed special advocate in Colorado (CASA), and now a legal. "Devastating and Unforgettable" according to James Augustine. "Some families cannot be saved and their children cannot be return. Yet, even then, their love for each other must be worth something."-- Andrew Bridge, Hope's BoyThis is a brave memoir about our nation's horribly broken foster care system, that all too often fails our children and families who are in most need and who are most vulnerable. With a steady and elegant voice, Bridge describes a mother who loved him desperately, and in the end, did more than most would ever ask of themselves, all
All the while, he refused to surrender the love he held for his mother in his heart. Deprived of the nurturing he needed, Andrew clung to academics and the kindness of teachers. But as her mental health steadily declined, and with no one else left to care for him, authorities arrived and tore Andrew from his screaming mother's arms. Andrew has dedicated his life's work to helping children living in poverty and in the foster care system. After surviving one of our country's most notorious children's facilities, Andrew was thrust into a savagely loveless foster family that refused to accept him as one of their own. Hope was institutionalized, and Andrew was placed in what would be his devastating reality for the next eleven years--foster care. In that moment, the life he knew came crashing down around him. Trapped in desperate poverty and confronted with unthinkable tragedies, all Andrew ever wanted was to be with his mom. From the moment he was born, Andrew Bridge and his mother, Hope, shared a love so deep that it felt like nothing else mattered. Ultimately, Andrew earned a scholarship to Wesleyan, went on to Harvard Law School, and became a Fulbright Scholar. He defied the staggering odds set against