Resilient: A Story of Group Home Survival

Painting in words an eerie landscape of life without family or love as a ward in the Southern California court system, Jeremy Bracamontes reconstructs his story with raw empathy and sharp insight. Tucked feebly between the merciless worlds of shelter homes, foster care, and orphanages are brief, glimmering flashes of goodness that form the cornerstone of his survival.

After the loss of his father to a premature death and his mother to addiction and incarceration, at a precariously young age,...