Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk A Caseworker's Story

Marc Parent

ISBN 10: 0449912353 / ISBN 13: 9780449912355

Published by Random House Publishing Group, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk A Caseworker's Story
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0449912353
• ISBN 13: 9780449912355
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: acceptable

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Synopsis

“An absorbing piece of narrative nonfiction . . . A rare glimpse of what it is like to man these front lines of the war on child abuse—and what it does to a person’s soul. . . . Devastating [and] mesmerizing.”—The Los Angeles Times

Featuring a new Afterword by the author

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.

About the Author

Marc Parent is the author of Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize as well as a New Visions nominee and a NEBA Honorary Selection, and Believing It All: What My Children Taught Me About Trout Fishing, Jelly Toast, and Life. He has written for The New York Times and USA Today, among other publications.