To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care
Cris Beam
Feb 2018 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Susan Ericksen
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Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herself, spent five years immersed in the world of foster care looking into these questions and tracing firsthand stories. The result is To the End of June, an unforgettable portrait that takes us deep inside the lives of foster children in their search for a stable, loving family.
Beam shows us the intricacies of growing up in the system—the back-and-forth with agencies, the rootless shuffling between homes, the emotionally charged tug between foster and birth parents, the terrifying push out of foster care and into adulthood. Humanizing and challenging a broken system, To the End of June offers a tribute to resiliency and hope for real change.
Beam shows us the intricacies of growing up in the system—the back-and-forth with agencies, the rootless shuffling between homes, the emotionally charged tug between foster and birth parents, the terrifying push out of foster care and into adulthood. Humanizing and challenging a broken system, To the End of June offers a tribute to resiliency and hope for real change.
Who are the children of foster care? What, as a country, do we owe them? Cris Beam, a foster mother herself, spent five years immersed in the world of foster care looking into these questions and tracing firsthand stories. The result is To the End of June, an unforgettable portrait that takes us ...
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Cris Beam's first book was Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers, which won a Lambda Literary Award and was a Stonewall Honor Book. Her young adult novel, I am J, was named a Kirkus Best Book and Library Guild Selection of 2011.
Susan Ericksen is a three-time Audie Award-winning narrator who has recorded over 500 books. The winner of multiple awards, including twenty-plus AudioFile Earphones Awards for both fiction and nonfiction, Susan is a classically trained actress who excels at multiple narrative styles and accents.
Cris Beam's first book was Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers, which won a Lambda Literary Award and was a Stonewall Honor Book. Her young adult novel, I am J, was named a Kirkus Best Book and Library Guild Selection of 2011.
Susan Ericksen is a three-time Audi...
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