Marc Parent
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Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk
Marc Parent
An 8-year old boy holding a knife to his younger brother’s throat. Three small children who watch their older sister jump out of a twenty-third story window, following their mother’s orders. Two boys whose mother believes they are all victims of a hex laid on them by her ex-husband. An eleven-year-old boy at a fashionable Manhattan address whose mother is so drunk she can’t keep her robe closed when child welfare workers come to visit.
These are the heroes of Marc Parent’s Turning Stones, small and unsuspecting victims of a society, and of a bureaucracy,…
