{"title":"Marc Parent","description":"Marc Parent is the author of Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize as well as a New Visions nominee and a NEBA Honorary Selection, and Believing It All: What My Children Taught Me About Trout Fishing, Jelly Toast, and Life. He has written for The New York Times and USA Today, among other publications.","products":[{"product_id":"turning-stones-my-days-and-nights-with-children-at-risk-a-caseworkers-story-paperback","title":"Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk A Caseworker's Story - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\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 \u003c\/p\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.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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\u003eWITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51324556771551,"sku":"9780449912355","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/2KW9Q1ecSs9780449912355.webp?v=1788433383"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/marc-parent.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}