Counting Down: A Memoir of Foster Parenting and Beyond Contributor(s): Gold, Deborah (Author) |
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ISBN: 0821422960 ISBN-13: 9780821422960 Publisher: Ohio University Press OUR PRICE: $49.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Family & Relationships | Adoption & Fostering - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2017959985 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.6" W x 8.6" (0.90 lbs) 256 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Adoption - Topical - Family |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: When Deborah Gold and her husband signed up to foster parent in their rural mountain community, they did not foresee that it would lead to a roller-coaster fifteen years of involvement with a traumatized yet resilient birth family. They fell in love with Michael (a toddler when he came to them), yet they had to reckon with the knowledge that he could leave their lives at any time. In Counting Down, Gold tells the story of forging a family within a confounding system. We meet social workers, a birth mother with the courage to give her children the childhood she never had herself, and a father parenting from prison. We also encounter members of a remarkable fellowship of Appalachian foster parents--gay, straight, right, left, evangelical, and atheist--united by love, loss, and quality hand-me-downs. Gold's memoir is one of the few books to deliver a foster parent's perspective (and, through Michael's own poetry and essays, that of a former foster child). In it, she shakes up common assumptions and offers a powerfully frank and hopeful look at an experience often portrayed as bleak. |