Description: After his mother was committed to a mental institution and his father abandoned him, this memoirist endured a harrowing life of abuse at the very hands of the orphanage responsible for rearing him. Here he chronicles his life in a Midwes...
Synopsis After his mother was committed to a mental institution and his father abandoned him, this memoirist endured a harrowing life of abuse at the very hands of the orphanage responsible for rearing him. Here he chronicles his life in a Midwestern orphanage in the 1930s and his subsequent experience as an indentured farm laborer.
Details
Publication Date:
2001-05-01
Series:
Native Voices
Edition Description:
Illustrated
Size
Length:
177 pages
Industry Reviews "A perfectly pitched memoir." Kirkus Reviews (07/01/2001)