{"product_id":"garbage-bag-suitcase-a-memoir","title":"Garbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir","description":" \"Must read for carers of children!\" - Barbara Campbell\n___\n\nMIDWEST BOOK AWARD-WINNER\nINDEPENDENT BOOK PUBLISHER AWARD-WINNER\nREADERS FAVORITE BOOK AWARD-WINNER\nPINNACLE BOOK ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS-WINNER\nBEVERLY HILLS BOOK AWARD-WINNER\n\nShenandoah Chefalo is on a wholly dysfunctional journey through a childhood with neglectful, drug-and alcohol addicted parents.\n\nShe endures numerous moves in the middle of the night with just minutes to pack, multiple changes in schools, hunger, cruelty, and loneliness.\n\nFinally at the age of 13, Shen had had enough. After being abandoned by her mother for months at her grandmother’s retirement community, she asks to be put into foster care.\n\nSurely she would fare better at a stable home than living with her mother?\n\nIt turns out that it was not the storybook ending she had hoped for. When a car accident lands her in the hospital with grave injuries and no one comes to visit her during her three-week stay, she realizes she is truly all alone in the world.\n\nOvercoming many adversities, Shen became part of the 3% of all foster care children who get into college, and the 1% who graduate.\n\nDespite her numerous achievements in life though, she still suffers from the long-term effects of neglect, and the coping skills that she adapted in her childhood are not always productive in her adult life.\n\nGarbage Bag Suitcase is not only the inspiring and hair-raising story of one woman’s journey to over- come her desolate childhood, but it also presents grass-root solutions on how to revamp the broken foster care system.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1943995036\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: RDV.1943995036.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Chefalo, Shenandoah\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This book is in good condition with very minimal damage. Pages may have minimal notes or highlighting. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46151159709873,"sku":"RDV.1943995036.G","price":6.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/1943995036-0.jpg?v=1755366888","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/garbage-bag-suitcase-a-memoir","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}