Girl unbroken : a sister's harrowing story of survival from the streets of Long Island to the farms of Idaho / Regina Calcaterra and Rosie Maloney with Jessica Anya Blau.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First editionDescription: xiv, 401 pages ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780062412584
- 0062412582
- Calcaterra, Regina -- Childhood and youth
- Calcaterra, Regina -- Family
- Maloney, Rosie -- Childhood and youth
- Maloney, Rosie -- Family
- Ex-foster children -- United States -- Biography
- Abused children -- Biography
- Children of alcoholics -- Biography
- Foster children -- New York (State) -- Long Island -- Biography
- Foster children -- Idaho -- Biography
- Child abuse -- New York (State) -- Long Island -- Case studies
- Child abuse -- Idaho -- Case studies
- Children of mentally ill mothers -- New York (State) -- Long Island -- Case studies
- Children of mentally ill mothers -- Idaho -- Case studies
- Kidnapping -- Biography
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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. Beaten physically, abused emotionally, and forced to labor at the farm where Cookie settles in Idaho, Rosie refuses to give in. Like her sister Regina, Rosie has an unfathomable strength in the face of unimaginable hardship--enough to propel her out of Idaho and out of a nightmare.
Filled with maturity and grace, Rosie's memoir continues the compelling story begun in Etched in Sand--a shocking yet profoundly moving testament to sisterhood and indomitable courage.
Foster things -- The devil we didn't know -- Out of the poop hole -- Before the storm -- The devil we knew -- No safe haven -- Swirling winds -- Into Idaho -- Safe from the storm -- Paradise -- Pathway to Perilous Peak -- Bookie or Cookie -- Collateral damage -- Pitchfork and dagger -- Up to her boots -- Baling out -- Ditched -- Light extinguished -- Out of Idaho -- Into Idaho redux -- Harvesting Rosie -- Mothering Cookie -- Out of Perilous Peak -- Exorcism -- Unbridled.
"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.