Turning Stones

Turning Stones
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Publisher : Ballantine Books
Total Pages : 402
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ISBN-10 : 9780449912355
ISBN-13 : 0449912353
Rating : 4/5 (353 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Turning Stones by : Marc Parent

Download or read book Turning Stones written by Marc Parent and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1998-01-27 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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.


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