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We were once a family : a story of love, death, and child removal in America /

The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children and a searing indictment of the American foster care system. On March 26, 2018, rescue workers discovered a crumpled SUV and the bodies of two women and several children at the bottom of a cliff beside the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Asgarian, Roxanna, 1987- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2023].
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Murder-suicide > United States.
Children > Crimes against > United States.
Children > Institutional care > United States.
Adopted children > Crimes against > United States.
African American children.
Interracial adoption > United States.
Foster children > Care > United States.
Foster home care > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Prologue
  • "Every time I see you, you take me away"
  • A safe place
  • The good ol' boys club
  • Big-time small-time living
  • Across state lines
  • "If not us, who?"
  • Playing the food card
  • "Is it because I'm bad?"
  • Dichotomy
  • "Kiss your mama"
  • "The last little hope I had"
  • "Why didn't they call me?"
  • "Something I could love unconditionally"
  • "Death at the hands of another"
  • Best interests of the child
  • A final resting place
  • Epilogue.