Prison baby
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Deborah Jiang Stein
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780807098103
Subjects: Drug addicts; Biography; Racially mixed children; Female juvenile delinquents; Adopted children; Rehabilitation; Children of women prisoners
Work titles: Even tough girls wear tutus
Description: "Twelve-year-old Deborah Jiang Stein felt like an outsider.  Her multiracial features set her apart from her well-intentioned adoptive Jewish parents, who evaded questions about her past.  When Deborah discovered a letter revealing the truth--that she was born in prison to a heroin-addicted mother and spent the first year of her life there--she spiraled into emotional lockdown and deeper trauma.  For years Deborah turned to drugs, violence, and crime to cope with her grief until she abandoned her reckless life and forged her way through healing and, eventually, found peace.  Prison Baby proves that redemption and acceptance are possible, even from the darkest corners"--Back cover.
Notes: "An earlier version of this book was published as Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus (privately published, 2011)"--T.p. verso.

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