After the death of her child, a grief-stricken psychotherapist volunteers as a poetry teacher at a residential treatment facility for delinquent girls. Here, their mutual suffering is nourishing and enriching to them all, though not without large quantities of drama and recalcitrance. As poet and therapist Sharon Charde Learns to cope with her new identity as a mourning mother while challenging these young women-Labeled as "delinquents" and cast off by society-to voice their life experiences, they all learn new ways of coping with the trauma in their Lives. Sharon and the girls find support and healing in writing and connecting with each other, as they grow together by transforming their pain into poems and sharing them with the wider world. For fans of the acclaimed The Freedom Writer's Diary comes the similarly inspiring I Am Not a Juvenile Delinquent, where readers will experience: The journeys and struggles these young women face in trying to transcend the labels placed upon them by society, Profound poems written by them, as well as Sharon's late son's writing, and her own, Poignant philosophical wisdom on suffering, strength, and the determination to persist Book jacket.
- ISBN:
- 9781642502138
- 9781642502138
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Category:
- Self-help & personal development
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
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16-06-2020
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Mango Media
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Dimensions (mm):
- 218.44x154.43x15.75mm
- Weight:
- 0.35kg
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