CD Audiobook
Hope's boy [sound recording] : a memoir / Andrew Bridge.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781400106066
- ISBN: 1400106060
- ISBN: 9781400136063 (lib. ed.)
- ISBN: 1400136067 (lib. ed.)
- Physical Description: 9 sound discs (10 1/2 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: [Library ed.]
- Publisher: [Old Saybrook, Conn.] : Tantor, p2008.
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| General Note: | Unabridged. Compact discs. Distributor and/or edition may vary. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by David Drummond. |
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| Subject: | Bridge, Andrew. Foster children > California > Biography. Foster home care > California. Foster parents > California. |
| Genre: | Audiobooks. |
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Hope's Boy : A Memoir
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Hope's Boy : A Memoir
When 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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