Girl unbroken
Subtitle: a sister's harrowing story of survival from the streets of Long Island to the farms of Idaho
By: Regina Calcaterra and Rosie Maloney with Jessica Anya Blau
Contributors: Maloney, Rosie, author; Blau, Jessica Anya, author
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: William Morrow & Company; William Morrow Paperbacks
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
ISBN-13: 9780062412584
Subjects: Foster children; Child abuse; Abused children; Family; Children of mentally ill mothers; Kidnapping; Ex-foster children; Children of alcoholics; Childhood and youth; Biography; Case studies
Description: "They were five kids with five different fathers and an alcoholic mother who left them to fend for themselves for weeks at a time. Yet through it all they had each other. Rosie, the youngest, is fawned over and shielded by her older sister, Regina. Their mother, Cookie, blows in and out of their lives 'like a hurricane, blind and uncaring to everything in her path'. But when Regina discloses the truth about her abusive mother to her social worker, she is separated from her younger siblings Norman and Rosie. And as Rosie discovers after Cookie kidnaps her from foster care, the one thing worse than being abandoned by her mother is living in Cookie's presence."--provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Foster things; title: The devil we didn't know; title: Out of the poop hole; title: Before the storm; title: The devil we knew; title: No safe haven; title: Swirling winds; title: Into Idaho; title: Safe from the storm; title: Paradise; title: Pathway to Perilous Peak; title: Bookie or Cookie; title: Collateral damage; title: Pitchfork and dagger; title: Up to her boots; title: Baling out; title: Ditched; title: Light extinguished; title: Out of Idaho; title: Into Idaho redux; title: Harvesting Rosie; title: Mothering Cookie; title: Out of Perilous Peak; title: Exorcism; title: Unbridled.