Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class by Henderson, Rob

Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class

NATIONAL BESTSELLER In this "affecting...intriguing...heartbreaking" (Booklist) coming-of-age memoir, Rob Henderson vividly recounts growing up in foster care,...
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Author: Rob Henderson
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Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class by Henderson, Rob

Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class

BD$30.18

Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class

BD$30.18
Author: Rob Henderson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
NATIONAL BESTSELLER

In this "affecting...intriguing...heartbreaking" (Booklist) coming-of-age memoir, Rob Henderson vividly recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, attending elite universities, and pioneering the concept of "luxury beliefs"--ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class while inflicting costs on the less fortunate.

Rob Henderson was born to a drug-addicted mother and a father he never met, ultimately shuttling between ten different foster homes in California. When he was adopted into a loving family, he hoped that life would finally be stable and safe. But divorce, tragedy, poverty, and violence marked his adolescent and teen years, propelling Henderson to join the military upon completing high school.

A "vivid, insightful, poignant, and powerful" (Nicholas A. Christakis, author of Blueprint) portrait of shattered families, desperation, and determination, Troubled recounts Henderson's expectation-defying young life and juxtaposes his story with those of his friends who wound up incarcerated or killed.

As he navigates the peaks and valleys of social class, Henderson finds that he remains on the outside looking in. His greatest achievements--a military career, an undergraduate education from Yale, a PhD from Cambridge--feel like hollow measures of success. He argues that stability at home is more important than external accomplishments, and he illustrates the ways the most privileged among us benefit from a set of social standards that actively harm the most vulnerable.

Author: Rob Henderson
Publisher: Gallery Books
Published: 02/04/2025
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.31w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9781982168544

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