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4 reviews for:
Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair: One Family's Passage Through the Child Welfare System
Susan Sheehan
3.63 AVERAGE
4 reviews for:
Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair: One Family's Passage Through the Child Welfare System
Susan Sheehan
3.63 AVERAGE
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Damn. You think you know about welfare and desperation and generational substance abuse; but you probably don't. Assigned for my social work foundational course and took me three days. Be ready for entirely too many people to keep track of
Really enjoyed this! I see a lot of other reviews saying the writing is bad which kinda baffles me. It's not bad at all, the grammar and flow are actually near perfect the whole way through. It's just a different style you wouldn't expect the find in a novel – and it isn't really a novel anyways, it's non-fiction.
The style is written very much like an article, or even a social services report. It seemed obvious to me it was written from the perspective of the foster care system itself to highlight the patterns of poverty and abuse that plague the families and children who find themselves in the system. My heart ached for Crystal and her family and I found the whole thing very poignant and fascinating!
The style is written very much like an article, or even a social services report. It seemed obvious to me it was written from the perspective of the foster care system itself to highlight the patterns of poverty and abuse that plague the families and children who find themselves in the system. My heart ached for Crystal and her family and I found the whole thing very poignant and fascinating!
Hard to describe. Interesting, and a quick read, but MAN, the writing is terrible. The editor must have just skimmed through this because there were several times I had to re-read a sentence, not knowing what the author was trying to say. Mostly this was because of a lack of commas.
In addition, the book is all over the place. While all the stories are sad, and the amount of time they all spent in foster care is deplorable (as are the reasons they are all in foster care), jumping from one story to another provide no continuity. There are so many "characters" in this book, that the jumping around made it hard to keep track of who was who.
In addition, the book is all over the place. While all the stories are sad, and the amount of time they all spent in foster care is deplorable (as are the reasons they are all in foster care), jumping from one story to another provide no continuity. There are so many "characters" in this book, that the jumping around made it hard to keep track of who was who.