Hope's BoyHope's Boy
A Memoir
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Downloadable Audiobook, 2008
Current format, Downloadable Audiobook, 2008, Unabridged, Available.Downloadable Audiobook, 2008
Current format, Downloadable Audiobook, 2008, Unabridged, Available. Offered in 0 more formatsWhen Andrew Bridge was seven years old, he and his mother---a mentally unstable woman who loved her child more than she could care for him---slid deeper and deeper into poverty, until they were reduced to scavenging for food in trash bins. Welfare officials did little more than threaten to take Andrew away, until a social worker arrived with a police escort and did just that while his mother screamed on the sidewalk. And so began Andrew's descent into the foster care system---"care" being a terrible irony, as he received almost none for the next eleven years. Academic achievement was Andrew's ticket out of hell---a scholarship to Wesleyan University led to Harvard Law School and a Fulbright Scholarship. Now an accomplished adult, he has dedicated his life to working on behalf of the frightened children still lost in the system. Hope's Boy is his story, a story of endurance and the power of love and, most of all, of hope.
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- Old Saybrook : Tantor Audio, 2008.
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