Another Place at the Table Paperback - 2004
by Harrison, Kathy
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- Acceptable
- Paperback
"Another Place at the Table" is the story of life at social services' front lines, centered on three children who, when they come together in Harrison's home, nearly destroy it. It is the frank, first-person story of a woman whose compassionate best intentions for a child are sometimes all that stand between violence and redemption.
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Details
- Title Another Place at the Table
- Author Harrison, Kathy
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 242
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher TarcherPerigee, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
- Date 2004
- Bookseller's Inventory # G1585422827I5N10
- ISBN 9781585422821 / 1585422827
- Weight 0.52 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8.23 x 5.55 x 0.71 in (20.90 x 14.10 x 1.80 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Adoption
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004046016
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Summary
The startling and ultimately uplifting narrative of one woman's thirteen-year experience as a foster parent.
For more than a decade, Kathy Harrison has sheltered a shifting cast of troubled youngsters-the offspring of prostitutes and addicts; the sons and daughters of abusers; and teenage parents who aren't equipped for parenthood. All this, in addition to raising her three biological sons and two adopted daughters. What would motivate someone to give herself over to constant, largely uncompensated chaos? For Harrison, the answer is easy.
Another Place at the Table is the story of life at our social services' front lines, centered on three children who, when they come together in Harrison's home, nearly destroy it. It is the frank first-person story of a woman whose compassionate best intentions for a child are sometimes all that stand between violence and redemption.
For more than a decade, Kathy Harrison has sheltered a shifting cast of troubled youngsters-the offspring of prostitutes and addicts; the sons and daughters of abusers; and teenage parents who aren't equipped for parenthood. All this, in addition to raising her three biological sons and two adopted daughters. What would motivate someone to give herself over to constant, largely uncompensated chaos? For Harrison, the answer is easy.
Another Place at the Table is the story of life at our social services' front lines, centered on three children who, when they come together in Harrison's home, nearly destroy it. It is the frank first-person story of a woman whose compassionate best intentions for a child are sometimes all that stand between violence and redemption.
From the publisher
First line
Given the life I have chosen to lead, I have come to dread that moment in cocktail party conversation when somebody asks the inevitable question "What do you do?"
