Hopes Boy, Andrew Bridge
Hopes Boy, Andrew Bridge
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Hope's Boy
A Memoir

Author: Andrew Bridge

Narrator: David Drummond

Unabridged: 10 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/19/2008

Synopsis

When Andrew Bridge was seven years old, he and his mother—a mentally unstable woman who loved her child more than she could care for him—slid deeper and deeper into poverty, until they were reduced to scavenging for food in trash bins. Welfare officials did little more than threaten to take Andrew away, until a social worker arrived with a police escort and did just that while his mother screamed on the sidewalk. And so began Andrew's descent into the foster care system—"care" being a terrible irony, as he received almost none for the next eleven years.

Academic achievement was Andrew's ticket out of hell—a scholarship to Wesleyan University led to Harvard Law School and a Fulbright Scholarship. Now an accomplished adult, he has dedicated his life to working on behalf of the frightened children still lost in the system. Hope's Boy is his story, a story of endurance and the power of love and, most of all, of hope.

About Andrew Bridge

Andrew Bridge spent eleven years in foster care in Los Angeles before earning a scholarship to Wesleyan University. He went on to Harvard Law School and was also a Fulbright Scholar. Formerly the CEO/general counsel of the Alliance for Children's Rights, he lives in New York City. He remains a dedicated and vocal advocate for children in foster care.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael on January 30, 2008

I was deeply moved by 'Hope's Boy,' Andrew Bridge's haunting elegy of a childhood that seemed to be lost forever when Andrew, at age 7, became a ward of the State after being taken from the arms of his young mother on a street corner in North Hollywood. Andrew's unsparing chronicle of his experience......more

Goodreads review by Jim on January 30, 2008

"Some families cannot be saved and their children cannot be return. Yet, even then, their love for each other must be worth something." -- Andrew Bridge, Hope's Boy This is a brave memoir about our nation's horribly broken foster care system, that all too often fails our children and families who are......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca on January 26, 2008

Hope's Boy is amazing. A friend of mine gave me an early publication copy that had been passed on to her. She loved it. I can only say the same. The memoir describes a young boy and his relationship with his young, single mother. With beautiful and delicately crafted words, Bridge describes his memo......more

Goodreads review by Marci on January 30, 2008

I was delighted to read an Advanced Reading Copy of Hope’s Boy. Connections with others, and the need for them, are at our core. They are powerful and enduring, as is the sense of loss when they are broken. In Bridge’s case, social workers and the foster care system broke his physical connections to......more

Goodreads review by Amy on February 10, 2008

This is a must read for anyone interested in foster care, or the child welfare system (or lack thereof) in the U.S. There are many books out there that detail the horrors and egregious acts that children have faced while supposedly being protected in state custody. However, Andrew Bridge does a grea......more

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