Book Synopsis
In Theresa Miller's remarkable memoir of how to survive in the foster care system - and in the process become whole - when the ground keeps shifting, is a story not only of redemption but of resiliency and clear insight.
Miller offers the evidence of a way through foster care - by reading books and telling stories about the events of one's life as they occur, by reframing one's stories and putting them in the context of the great children's stories, the Grimm Brothers Tales. Despite pain and anguish of parental neglect and mental illness, despite the unending number of homes and families Miller was asked to "fit" into, Miller chronicles what saved her, what brought her - not quite unscathed but whole - through the forest of goblins that was - and sometimes still is - the foster care system.
Few books on foster care tell a story that ends in WOW!