Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk A Caseworker's Story
Why does an infant die of malnutrition? Why does an eight-year-old hold a knife to his brother's throat? Or a mother push her cherished daughter twenty-three floors to her death? Marc Parent, a city caseworker, searched the streets--and his heart--for the answers, and shares them in this...
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Why does an infant die of malnutrition? Why does an eight-year-old hold a knife to his brother's throat? Or a mother push her cherished daughter twenty-three floors to her death? Marc Parent, a city caseworker, searched the streets--and his heart--for the answers, and shares them in this powerful, vivid, beautifully written book.WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780449912355 (0449912353)
Publish date: January 27th 1998
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 400
Edition language: English