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Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island

2013, Regina Calcaterra

4.2/5

The book's a genuine tear-jerker. Five little children all abused, a couple of them worse than the others with beatings and imprisonment, starvation and whatever else their mother (their five fathers were not present) could think up when she was present and not off on one of her months-long jaunts. You might think this was in some far-off country, but no it was in NY.They were let down time and again by social services so much so that they felt all the abuse was worth it just to stay together. With encouragement the author emancipated herself at 14, hoping, with her two older sisters to be able to take her younger brother and sister away from the hell. But she had been lied to by the social worker and for long years she wasn't even allowed to see them.Fortunately, all of them made it out of poverty and have families of their own. The author became the most successful, an attorney and a writer.I hope this book makes a difference. Regina Calcaterra hasn't just written a book she also heads a committee on helping children in care. She's written a good book and I don't think it will be her last.________When I wrote this review a couple of days ago I included a personal anecdote, as I do. It inspired my usual troll(s), to send me friend-requests with a lot of hatred. I thought that by only allowing friends to comment it would solve the problem but it didn't as there is no way of blocking friend request messages. So I've cut the review and cut my comments.

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