{"product_id":"turning-stones-my-days-and-nights-with-children-at-risk-a-caseworkers-story-9780449912355","title":"Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk a Caseworker's Story","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"An absorbing piece of narrative nonfiction . . . A rare glimpse of what it is like to man these front lines of the war on child abuse--and what it does to a person's soul. . . . Devastating [and] mesmerizing.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing a new Afterword by the author\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhy does an infant die of malnutrition? Why does an eight-year-old hold a knife to his brother's throat? Or a mother push her cherished daughter twenty-three floors to her death? Marc Parent, a city caseworker, searched the streets--and his heart--for the answers, and shares them in this powerful, vivid, beautifully written book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarc Parent\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eTurning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book\u003c\/i\u003e Prize as well as a New Visions nominee and a NEBA Honorary Selection, and\u003ci\u003e Believing It All: What My Children Taught Me About Trout Fishing, Jelly Toast, and Life\u003c\/i\u003e. He has written for \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ballantine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51589813240082,"sku":"9780449912355","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d16904cd-4813-4d30-94af-5c9a4881c06d.jpg?v=1756807934","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/turning-stones-my-days-and-nights-with-children-at-risk-a-caseworkers-story-9780449912355","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}