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Author:

Calcaterra, Regina, author.

Title:

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.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

William Morrowan imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xiv, 401 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

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--Long Island--Long Island--Biography.
Child abuse--Long Island--Long Island--Case studies.
Children of mentally ill mothers--Long Island--Long Island--Case studies.
Kidnapping--Biography.
Autobiography.

Other Authors:

Maloney, Rosie, author.
Blau, Jessica Anya, author.

Contents:

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.

Summary:

"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.".

ISBN:

0062412582 (paperback)
9780062412584 (paperback)

LCCN:

bl2016044777

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