Audiobook7 hours
Another Place at the Table
Written by Kathy Harrison
Narrated by Pam Ward
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
The startling and ultimately uplifting narrative of one woman's thirteen-year experience as a foster parent.
For more than a decade, Kathy Harrison has sheltered a shifting cast of troubled youngsters-the offspring of prostitutes and addicts; the sons and daughters of abusers; and teenage parents who aren't equipped for parenthood. All this, in addition to raising her three biological sons and two adopted daughters. What would motivate someone to give herself over to constant, largely uncompensated chaos? For Harrison, the answer is easy.
Another Place at the Table is the story of life at our social services' front lines, centered on three children who, when they come together in Harrison's home, nearly destroy it. It is the frank first-person story of a woman whose compassionate best intentions for a child are sometimes all that stand between violence and redemption.
For more than a decade, Kathy Harrison has sheltered a shifting cast of troubled youngsters-the offspring of prostitutes and addicts; the sons and daughters of abusers; and teenage parents who aren't equipped for parenthood. All this, in addition to raising her three biological sons and two adopted daughters. What would motivate someone to give herself over to constant, largely uncompensated chaos? For Harrison, the answer is easy.
Another Place at the Table is the story of life at our social services' front lines, centered on three children who, when they come together in Harrison's home, nearly destroy it. It is the frank first-person story of a woman whose compassionate best intentions for a child are sometimes all that stand between violence and redemption.
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Reviews for Another Place at the Table
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This book. ♥️ I cried so many times and Kathys words narrating these kids (and her) story broke my heart over and over in all the best ways! My compassion and heart for the kids in foster care has greatly expanded and I wish so badly we could just completely do away with all the hurt these kids are suffering.
Listen/read and prepare to have your heart broken and your mind opened like never before. Well worth every minute. ♥️ - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What a fantastic book on the joys and sorrows of foster parenting! This book does such a good job of pulling the reader into the sad stories of these dear, battered children.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I cried through the whole book. And read it straight through except for when I had to put it down for a couple of very hard parts.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This memoir tells it like it is. Kathy Harrison does not sugar coat anything she has seen or has felt and as a reader we can see and feel what she has lived through and for. This book let's us into a world few of us understand. It opens our eyes and our hearts to those who take in children and who really do care for each of them. It is definitely one of my favorites.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I read this in 3 days - learned so much about the foster system and the people in it.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An AMAZING true story about a foster family and all that goes on in their world. This isn't just another "poor mistreated kids" book, this book gives some real insight on the social services system and all that goes into fostering, adopting, visitation, etc... I learned more by reading this book then I have ever learned throughout all of my adoption research. The book is sad, happy, hopeful, and scary all at once.... scary to realize that children actually go through these horrors, unbelievably sad when more bad things/decisions happen to the child, and yet filled with hope and happiness for the children who are fortunate enough to stay in such a wonderful home and become a part of such a loving family.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5So I haven't actually completely finished this book, but I skimmed and read the first few chapters. This book is AMAZING. Written from the perspective of one of the most experienced and caring foster mothers I have ever heard about. It allows you into her home to see the challenges of parenting and being a child without a family.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Even for those not personally interested in fostering...this was a great book and I now understand fostering better.