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

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In this “affecting...intriguing...heartbreaking” (Booklist) coming—of—age memoir, Rob Henderson vividly recounts growing up in foster care, enlisting in the US Air Force, attending elite universities, and pioneering the concept of “luxury beliefs”—ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class while inflicting costs on the less fortunate.

Rob Henderson was born to a drug—addicted mother and a father he never met, ultimately shuttling between ten different foster...