We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Roxanna Asgarian

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The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children—and a searing indictment of the American foster care system.

On March 26, 2018, rescue workers…
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ISBN: 9780374602291

ROBERT KOLKER, THE WASHINGTON POST

"[Asgarian's] bracing gut punch of a book, We Were Once a Family, is a provocative mix of immersive narrative journalism, rigorous social policy analysis and proud advocacy. It pulls back the focus from the horrific crash to investigate, thoroughly and intimately, why these six children were sent out of Texas in the first place ... Asgarian begins with a powerfully rendered narrative of how the second set of three children the Harts adopted — Ciera, Devonte and Jeremiah — were caught up in the wheels of a Texas family court ... The children are killed with more than 100 pages left in the book. It is here that Asgarian fully steps into the narrative, developing deep personal ties with the children's birth parents, their partners, their other children and their caseworkers, getting to understand the depths of their impossible life situations and the institutional neglect ... The most affecting story is of Dontay Davis, the brother left behind, first institutionalized and later incarcerated."

Лауреат: 2024 г.Медаль Эндрю Карнеги (Публицистика)

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