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Winner of the 2023 National Book Critics Circle for Nonfiction and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
A Washington Post best nonfiction book of 2023 Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
A riveting indictment of the child welfare system . . . [A] bracing gut punch of a book. Robert Kolker, The Washington Post
[A] moving and superbly reported book. Jessica Winter, The New Yorker
A harrowing account . . . [and] a powerful critique of [the] foster care system . . . We Were Once a Family is a wrenching book. Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice One of Publishers Weekly''s best nonfiction books of 2023
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six childrenand a searing indictment of the American foster care system.
On March 26, 2018, rescue worker
