Books by Susan Sheehan and Complete Book Reviews

Life for Me Aint Been No Crystal Stair: One Familys Passage Through the Child Welfare System
Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair: One Family's Passage Through the Child Welfare System
Susan Sheehan, Author Vintage Books USA $15 (192p) ISBN 978-0-679-75450-3
Pulitzer Prize-winner Sheehan recounts a black urban family's odyssey through the New York City foster-care system. (Sept.)
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Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair
Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair
Susan Sheehan, Author Pantheon Books $21 (174p) ISBN 978-0-679-41472-8
Reprinted from the New Yorker , this searching and graceful book limns a black family's entrenchment in the New York City foster-care system, a system which, says Sheehan, costs taxpayers billions of dollars a year. In 1984, 14-year-old Crystal...
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THE BANANA SCULPTOR
THE BANANA SCULPTOR, THE PURPLE LADY, AND THE ALL-NIGHT SWIMMER: Hobbies, Collecting, and Other Passionate Pursuits
Susan Sheehan, Author, Howard Means, Joint Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (299p) ISBN 978-0-7432-0122-3
Lots of people have hobbies—golf, knitting, collecting baseball cards—but the subjects of this lively oral history have bypassed the obvious pursuits. Instead, they collect Noah's arks and Gore Vidal memorabilia, swim the Great...
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