Foster Care Odyssey
Subtitle: A Black Girl's Story (Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography)
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: March 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781578064205
Subjects: Foster home care; People of Color; Foster Care Services; Women; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; New York (State); Biography/Autobiography; Human Services; Foster children; Family Relationships; Personal Memoirs; African American women; Biography
First sentence: My birth certificate says I was born on January 29, 1954, in Buffalo, a medium-sized industrialized city on the shores of Lake Erie in western New York.
Description: "Without signing the documents that would permit adoption, young Theresa Cameron's mother placed her little daughter under the aegis of Catholic Charities and then vanished forever.".

"During the 1960s and 1970s this abandoned, unadoptable child was shuttled through foster homes in the vicinity of Buffalo, N.Y. In her most formative and impressionable years she was wrenched through the to-and-fro mechanism of foster care. Insecure, desolate, and frightened, she was rotated through group homes and the houses of alien families, the victim of religious hypcrisy, racial prejudice, and insult.".

"Theresa remained in this bleak, shame-imposing limbo until she was eighteen. Foster Care Odyssey is her candid story."--BOOK JACKET.