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We were once a family : a story of love, death, and child removal in America  Cover Image Book Book

We were once a family : a story of love, death, and child removal in America / Roxanna Asgarian.

Summary:

"The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children-and a searing indictment of the American foster care system"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374602291 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: xiv, 297 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Subject: Adopted children > Care > United States.
Adopted children > Crimes against > United States.
Children > Crimes against > United States.
Children > Institutional care > United States.
Murder-suicide > United States.
Genre: True crime stories.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.

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Roxanna Asgarian is a Texas-based independent journalist who writes about child welfare and the law. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, New York, and Texas Monthly, among other publications. She received the 2022 J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for We Were Once a Family.


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