Troubled

A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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'Masterpiece' Evening Standard 'Fascinating' The Economist Best Titles of 2024In this vivid coming-of-age memoir, Rob Henderson recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, attending elite universities – and what he learnt from seeing life from both sides of the tracks.In this heartbreaking and thought-provoking memoir, Rob Henderson vividly recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, attending Yale and Cambridge, and pioneering the concept of ‘luxury beliefs’ – ideas and opinions that confer status on the more educated while inflicting costs on the less fortunate.Rave Reader Reviews‘Eye-opening and heart-breaking’‘Inspiring’‘Incredible’‘Wow’‘Powerful and thought-provoking’

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Utgivningsdatum2025-01-30
Mått129 x 198 x 23 mm
Vikt274 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor290
FörlagSwift Press
ISBN9781800753662

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Rob Henderson grew up in foster homes in Los Angeles and the rural town of Red Bluff, California. He joined the Air Force at the age of seventeen. After his enlistment, he graduated from Yale University with a BS in psychology and was subsequently awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Once described as 'self-made' by the New York Times, Rob received a PhD in psychology from St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge in 2022. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, and the New York Post, among other outlets. Rob’s popular Substack newsletter is sent each week to more than forty thousand subscribers.