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04005aim a2200445Ka 4500 001 7B43A46A042F11EE896B6DEA35ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230606010033 006 m h 007 cr una--- 007 sz usn nn ed 008 221123s2023 nyu s 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1250883628 020 $a 9781250883629 (sound recording) 040 $a TEFOD $c TEFOD $d SILO 084 $a TRU002000 $a LAW038010 $a TRU002000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Asgarian, Roxanna. 245 10 $a We were once a family $h [electronic resource] : $b A story of love, death, and child removal in america. $c Roxanna Asgarian. 250 $a Unabridged. 260 $a New York : $b Macmillan Audio, $c 2023. 300 $a 1 online resource (7 audio files) : $b digital 306 $a 07:34:12 500 $a Unabridged. 511 0 $a Narrator: Suehyla El-Attar. 520 $a One of Literary Hub 's most anticipated books of 2023 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 discovered a crumpled SUV and the bodies of two women and several children at the bottom of a cliff beside the Pacific Coast Highway. Investigators soon concluded that the crash was a murder-suicide, but there was more to the story: Jennifer and Sarah Hart, it turned out, were a white married couple who had adopted the six Black children from two different Texas families in 2006 and 2008. Behind the family's loving facade, however, was a pattern of abuse and neglect that went ignored as the couple withdrew the children from school and moved across the country. It soon became apparent that the State of Texas knew very little about the two individuals to whom it had given custody of six children—with fateful consequences. In the manner of Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family and other classic works of investigative journalism, Roxanna Asgarian's We Were Once a Family is a revelation of vulnerable lives; it is also a shattering exposé of the foster care and adoption systems that produced this tragedy. As a journalist in Houston, Asgarian became the first reporter to put the children's birth families at the center of the story. We follow the author as she runs up against the intransigence of a state agency that removes tens of thousands of kids from homes each year in the name of child welfare, while often failing to consider alternatives. Her reporting uncovers persistent racial biases and corruption as children of color are separated from birth parents without proper cause. The result is a riveting narrative and a deeply reported indictment of a system that continues to fail America's most vulnerable children while upending the lives of their families. A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 538 $a Requires the Libby app or a modern web browser. 650 17 $a Nonfiction. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a Family & Relationships. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a Law. $2 OverDrive 650 7 $a True Crime. $2 OverDrive 655 7 $a Electronic books. $2 local 700 1 $a El-Attar, Suehyla. 856 40 $u http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=251&titleID=8958988 $z Click to download here. 856 4 $3 Excerpt $u https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=95e6e7db-f055-40ab-ac11-258aa1ffa7ca&.epub-sample.overdrive.com $z Sample 856 4 $3 Image $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-100/1493-1/%7B95E6E7DB-F055-40AB-AC11-258AA1FFA7CA%7DIMG100.JPG $z Large cover image 856 4 $3 Thumbnail $u https://img1.od-cdn.com/ImageType-200/1493-1/%7B95E6E7DB-F055-40AB-AC11-258AA1FFA7CA%7DIMG200.JPG $z Thumbnail cover image 856 40 $3 Click for more information $u https://api.overdrive.com/v1/collections/v1L1B0wAAAA2Z/products/95e6e7db-f055-40ab-ac11-258aa1ffa7ca $x 1370 941 $a 1 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20230606010953.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7B43A46A042F11EE896B6DEA35ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search