num_pages: 240
description: An internationally known professor of economics, the author of more than 20 books, and the happily married father of four children, Richard McKenzie is also the alumnus of an orphanage. The son of abusive and alcoholic parents, he was placed in a home for children in North Carolina at the age of 10. Now, in this poignant and quietly powerful remembrance, he recalls his experiences there more than four decades ago.Neither the idealistic world of Boys Town nor a cold and loveless Dickensian institution, "The Home," as everyone called it, managed to provide its charges with the stability they needed to build character and self-respect. Casting new light on the debate about the fate of abused children. The Home makes for timely and compelling reading.
language: English
title: The Home: A Memoir of Growing Up in an Orphanage
titlecomplete: The Home: A Memoir of Growing Up in an Orphanage
genres: Memoir
ratings_count: 35
publisher: Basic Books