That Mean Old Yesterday
Patton, Stacey
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
That Mean Old Yesterday is an
astonishing coming-of-age memoir
by a young woman who survived
the foster care system to become an
award-winning journalist.
No one would ever imagine that the vibrant,
smart, and attractive Stacey Patton had a
childhood from hell. Once a foster child who
found a home, she was supposed to be among
the lucky. On a rainy night in November 1999,
a shoeless Stacey, promising student at NYU,
headed down a New Jersey street toward her
adoptive parents' house. She carried a gun in
her pocket, and she kept repeating to herself
that she would pull the trigger. She wanted to
kill them. Or so she thought.
This is a story of how a typical American
family can be undermined by its own effort
to be perfect on the surface. After all, with
God-fearing, house-proud, and hardworking
adoptive parents, Stacey appeared to beat
the odds. But her mother was tyrannical, and
her father, either so in love with or in fear of
his wife, turned a blind eye to the abuse she
heaped on their love-starved little girl.
In That Mean Old Yesterday, a little girl
rises above the tyranny of an overzealous
mother by channeling her intellectual energy
into schoolwork. Wise beyond her years,
she can see that her chances for survival are
advanced through her struggle to get into an
elite boarding school. She uses all she has, a brilliant mind, to link her experience to the
legacy of American slavery and to successfully
frame her understanding of why her good
adoptive parents did terrible things to her by
realizing that they had terrible things done to
them.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 074329310X
ISBN(13-digit): 9780743293105
Dewey Decimal: 362.764092
Library of Congress: 2006101280
Book Publisher: Pocket Books
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 336
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