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We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America
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91
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Readers
87/100Critics
96/100Scholars
Author:
Roxanna Asgarian
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date:
March 14, 2023
The shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six childrenâand a searing indictment of the American foster care system.
What The Reviewers Say
Harrowing.
[Asgarian's] bracing gut punch of a book, We Were Once a Family, is a provocative mix of immersive narrative journalism, rigorous social policy analysis and proud advocacy. It pulls back the focus from the horrific crash to investigate, thoroughly and intimately, why these six children were sent out of Texas in the first place.
Moving and superbly reported.
Asgarian's tenacious and vulnerable reporting reveals the foundation of this intensely disturbing story.
