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Turning Stones

My Days and Nights with Children at Risk A Caseworker's Story

Author Marc Parent
Foreword by Anna Quindlen
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$19.00 US
Ballantine Group | Ballantine Books
5.48"W x 8.2"H x 0.92"D  
On sale Jan 27, 1998 | 400 Pages | 9780449912355
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These are the riveting and disturbing true stories of a child welfare caseworker's years on the job. For four years, Marc Parent was a respected case worker in New York City's Emergency Children's Services, a city agency created to investigate cases of abused children. Parent was devoted, and witnessed bravery as well as some of the worst tortures of the soul. But then one of his cases went horribly wrong. Faced with the tragedy of a child's death he ultimately, inspiringly, rediscovered the feeling of making a difference by turning one stone--saving one child--at a time.

With a new Afterword by the author.

"Turning Stones is by turns discomforting and painful, comic and hopeful. Marc Parent's unblinking honesty made me wince. His deft storytelling made me sit up and listen. And his love for the children--and yes, their parents--made me want to turn stones as well."
--Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here
Marc Parent is the author of Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize as well as a New Visions nominee and a NEBA Honorary Selection, and Believing It All: What My Children Taught Me About Trout Fishing, Jelly Toast, and Life. He has written for The New York Times and USA Today, among other publications.
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“A revelatory and affirmative work, a grace note played against the darkest passages of family life.”—Newsday

“Riveting . . . combines humor and pathos, horror and joy . . . This book is not the observation of a journalist. This comes straight from the heart.”—Denver Free Press

“Turning Stones is by turns discomforting and painful, comical and hopeful. Marc Parent’s unblinking honesty made me wince. His deft storytelling made me sit up and listen. And his love for the children—and  yes, their parents—made me want to turn stones as well.”—Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here

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These are the riveting and disturbing true stories of a child welfare caseworker's years on the job. For four years, Marc Parent was a respected case worker in New York City's Emergency Children's Services, a city agency created to investigate cases of abused children. Parent was devoted, and witnessed bravery as well as some of the worst tortures of the soul. But then one of his cases went horribly wrong. Faced with the tragedy of a child's death he ultimately, inspiringly, rediscovered the feeling of making a difference by turning one stone--saving one child--at a time.

With a new Afterword by the author.

"Turning Stones is by turns discomforting and painful, comic and hopeful. Marc Parent's unblinking honesty made me wince. His deft storytelling made me sit up and listen. And his love for the children--and yes, their parents--made me want to turn stones as well."
--Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here

Author

Marc Parent is the author of Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize as well as a New Visions nominee and a NEBA Honorary Selection, and Believing It All: What My Children Taught Me About Trout Fishing, Jelly Toast, and Life. He has written for The New York Times and USA Today, among other publications.
Marc Parent View titles by Marc Parent

Praise

“A revelatory and affirmative work, a grace note played against the darkest passages of family life.”—Newsday

“Riveting . . . combines humor and pathos, horror and joy . . . This book is not the observation of a journalist. This comes straight from the heart.”—Denver Free Press

“Turning Stones is by turns discomforting and painful, comical and hopeful. Marc Parent’s unblinking honesty made me wince. His deft storytelling made me sit up and listen. And his love for the children—and  yes, their parents—made me want to turn stones as well.”—Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here

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