The startling and ultimately uplifting narrative of one woman's
thirteen-year experience as a foster parent.
For more than a decade, Kathy Harrison has sheltered a shifting cast of
troubled youngsters-the offspring of prostitutes and addicts; the sons
and daughters of abusers; and teenage parents who aren't equipped for
parenthood. All this, in addition to raising her three biological sons
and two adopted daughters. What would motivate someone to give herself
over to constant, largely uncompensated chaos? For Harrison, the answer
is easy.
Another Place at the Table is the story of life at our social
services' front lines, centered on three children who, when they come
together in Harrison's home, nearly destroy it. It is the frank
first-person story of a woman whose compassionate best intentions for a
child are sometimes all that stand between violence and redemption.