num_pages: 288
description: It was no mystery why California had 98000 children stuck in foster care. There were not 98003 because I was stubborn. When David Marin fell in love with three abandoned children desperately in need of a home there was only one thing he could do. Give up his relatively carefree life and learn how to become a parent. In the process he found the future he had always wanted but he also learned some hard lessons about single-parent adoption the Kafkaesque side of Social Services and America's anti-immigrant Heartbreaking funny and inspiring This Is US chronicles Marins quest to create a better life for these childrenand for himself.
language: English
title: This is US: The New All-American Family
publisher: Exterminating Angel Press