Boarding School Bastard. A Memoir: Life in an Orphanage for Fatherless Boys

Author: Sharavsky, AlanBrand: Independently PublishedBinding: PaperbackNumber Of Pages: 249Release Date: 10-05-2020Details: Product Description A deaf widow leaves her eight-year-old son, Alan, at an orphanage, hoping he'll find a better life than she can provide on a sweatshop paycheck. She dreams that Girard College, a boarding school for fatherless boys, will be his Camelot. What she doesn't know is that child abuse, anti-Semitism, sexual assault, and bullying await him. And Alan doesn't know whether his mother is coming back. Or if he'll have to run away. Boarding School Bastard is the moving memoir of a frightening yet fascinating childhood, spent in a historic Philadelphia orphanage from 1962 to 1970. Leavening tragedy with humor and humanity, Boarding School Bastard reveals a world we'd prefer to avoid but is too riveting to ignore. To witness how hope and friendship triumph over grief, abuse and fear, this best-selling memoir is essential reading. PRAISE FOR BOARDING SCHOOL