Troubled - A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class

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In 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.

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