Garbage Bag Suitcase Garbage Bag Suitcase

Garbage Bag Suitcase

A Memoir

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Publisher Description

Garbage Bag Suitcase is the true story of Shenandoah Chefalo’s wholly dysfunctional journey through a childhood with neglectful, drug-and alcohol addicted parents. She endured numerous moves in the middle of the night with just minutes to pack, multiple changes in schools, hunger, cruelty, and loneliness. Finally at the age of 13, Shen had had enough. After being abandoned by her mother for months at her grandmother’s retirement community, she asked to be put into foster care. Surely she would fare better at a stable home than living with her mother? It turns out that it was not the storybook ending she had hoped for. With foster parents more interested in the income received by housing a foster child, Shen was once again neglected emotionally. The money she earned working at the local grocery store was taken by her foster parents to “cover her expenses.” When a car accident lands her in the hospital with grave injuries and no one came to visit her during her three-week stay, she realizes she is truly all alone in the world. Overcoming her many adversities, Shen became part of the 3% of all foster care children who get into college, and the 1% who graduate. She became a successful businesswoman, got married, and had a daughter. Despite her numerous achievements in life though, she still suffers from the long-term effects of neglect, and the coping skills that she adapted in her childhood are not always productive in her adult life. Garbage Bag Suitcase is not only the inspiring and hair-raising story of one woman’s journey to over- come her desolate childhood, but it also presents grass-root solutions on how to revamp the broken foster care system.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2016
February 5
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
200
Pages
PUBLISHER
Mission Point Press
SELLER
Shenandoah Chefalo
SIZE
347.9
KB

Customer Reviews

Sophia2305 ,

BEST BOOK TO LEARN ABOUT CHILD WELFARE!

This is by far the best book I have read on child welfare and foster care. I have read many books on the topic, however, none of them compare to the exquisitely written heart felt story that includes well thought out and practical solutions for the broken foster care system. Shenandoah has truly overcome so much trauma and is now using those experiences to protect the future generations of children, so no one has to suffer like she did.

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