Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Autor/a de Three Little Words: A Memoir
Sobre l'autor
Obres de Ashley Rhodes-Courter
Three more words 11 exemplars
Three more words 2 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Data de naixement
- 1985
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Llocs de residència
- Florida, USA
South Carolina, USA - Educació
- Eckherd College
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
GAL Book Club (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 4
- Membres
- 914
- Popularitat
- #28,065
- Valoració
- 4.1
- Ressenyes
- 47
- ISBN
- 26
I liked that Rhodes-Courter wrote what she was thinking and feeling as a child, rather than only reflecting back with "adult understanding" - I think it helps readers better understand what kids in care actually experience.
There is some language (in dialogue) and a few sexual references (depicting what she was exposed to as a child).
Though the foster care system has improved some since Rhodes-Courter was in it, there are so many more improvements needed, and I found this book motivating!
"Although [our mother] submitted applications for food stamps and aid for dependent children, the welfare officials told her that she was ineligible because her children were no longer living with her. When she tried to get us back, the caseworker said she had to be able to provide food for us.... We were now state property. Our legal guardian was the executive branch of the Florida government, an entity that would rather pay strangers to care for us than offer any economic help to my mother to care for her own children." (p 15-16)… (més)