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Inspirational speaker and social crusader Rhodes-Courter follows her heartfelt memoir about growing up in foster care (Three Little Words) with this volume about her life as a college student, newlywed, and mother (foster, biological, and adoptive). Rhodes-Courter pulls no punches; her no-filter depiction of the foster-care system, her biological family, and herself is fiercely real, if somewhat metaphor-heavy and unpolished.
312 pp.
| Atheneum
| January, 2008
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TradeISBN 978-1-4169-4806-3$17.99
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As a young child, Rhodes-Courter was endlessly shuttled among state facilities and foster homes (some horrifyingly abusive) before finally being adopted by a loving family. Now in her early twenties, Ashley reflects on the experience in this heartfelt memoir. Her writing is unpolished, but one gets the sense that the words are fiercely, authentically her own.