Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair: One Family's Passage Through the Child Welfare System

This book opened the dor to the Micro class I sm taking in my masters program... Spot on ... And A good read

A heart breaking story of a family’s struggle with sexual, substance and physical abuse, despair and dysfunction; all while trying to navigate through a broken social service system. Sadly, this book is terribly written. The Pulitzer Prize winning author writes “She, Florence, Carlos and Matthew had spent a month after the eviction living in the basement apartment of a drunken friend of her mother’s where they had had to use candles because the electricity had been cut off.” This is not a quote from one of the characters, but the way the author writes sentences -- needlessly verbose with dodgy grammar. Ms. Sheehan also jumps back and forth in time with no rhyme or reason. This is a story worthy of being told, unfortunately, it’s told very poorly.

This was a book assigned for a social work class and the author known to my professor. The book reads like a autobiographical novel. it follows the life of a young girl caught up in the welfare system and her side of what it is like.

Book was needed for class.

Eye opening and interesting read! Keeps you engaged and let's you into the foster care, drugs/alcohol, welfare systems... And it's cycle

Very interesting book and very insightful. This is a great book for someone in the social work or any related field.

This book was a good read!

I had to read this for a grad school class. It was okay.