Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and… by Rob Henderson · Audiobook preview

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Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
Authored by Rob Henderson
Narrated by Rob Henderson

0:00 Intro
0:03 Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
0:15 Preface
19:53 Chapter One: Until Your Heart Explodes
51:33 Outro

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BOOK DESCRIPTION

In this raw coming–of–age memoir, Rob Henderson vividly 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.

Rob Henderson was born to a drug–addicted mother and a father he never met, ultimately shuttling between ten different foster homes in California. When he was adopted into a loving family, he hoped that life would finally be stable and safe. He was wrong: tragedy, poverty and violence marked his adolescent years.

An unflinching portrait of shattered families, desperation, and determination, Troubled recounts how Henderson eventually managed to find an escape route through the military, which led to an academic career at Yale and Cambridge. As he reflects on the fate of many of his friends – drugs, death, prison – Henderson never escapes the feeling of being on the outside looking in, or a sense that his academic achievements are hollow compared to the love and protection that comes from stable family life. He dissects the hypocrisies of contemporary social class and shows how the most privileged among us benefit from a set of 'luxury beliefs' that actively harm the most vulnerable.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rob Henderson grew up in foster homes in Los Angeles and the rural town of Red Bluff, California. He joined the Air Force at the age of seventeen. After his enlistment, he graduated from Yale University with a BS in psychology and was subsequently awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Once described as 'self–made' by the New York Times, Rob received a PhD in psychology from St. Catharine's College, Cambridge in 2022. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, and the New York Post, among other outlets. Rob's popular Substack newsletter is sent each week to more than forty thousand subscribers.

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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS

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Language: English
Publisher: Swift Press Audio
Published on: February 20, 2024
ISBN: 9781800753679
Duration: 7 hr, 50 min
Genres: Biography & Autobiography / General, Biography & Autobiography / Memoirs