Sub-title: A black girl's story
While travelling this summer, I picked this up at a campground book exchange. Serendipitously, this story of a woman raised from birth in the foster care system is the story of an adoptee whose mother left her with Catholic charities and who never knew her father. The author survived this system, barely, and went on to get her doctorate from Harvard.
I learned a lot about how the foster care system operates and the impact on children. Inadvertently, I think, the author's writing revealed the guarded, stilted communication style that came from an unstable, unpredictable childhood.
I wanted to see if she ever found her father so I researched her. Therese Cameron wrote a second book about her struggles in her adult life Learning to Live: A Black Woman's Journey Beyond Foster Care.
But, I also found that she was fired from Arizona State University for alleged plagiarism of a syllabus, and sued and lost a discrimination case that she brought as the root cause of her firing. After losing the case in 2011, she died in 2012 and I've yet to find any genealogical records of her death.
I ordered her 2nd book ...review to come.
Published: 2002 Read: June 2022 Genre: Memoir
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