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The Orphans' Nine Commandments
William Roger Holman
其他書名
A Memoir
出版
TCU Press
, 2007
主題
Biography & Autobiography / General
Family & Relationships / Adoption & Fostering
Literary Collections / General
Social Science / General
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family
Social Science / Children's Studies
ISBN
0875653553
9780875653556
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=2cAgAQAAIAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
When Roger Bechan was six, his mother packed his suitcase and told him they were going to Oklahoma City to visit an uncle. Instead, she took him to the Oklahoma Society for the Friendless, where he began a long journey through three orphanages and several foster homes. With all the color of the 1930s, this is a story of survival within an impersonal child-care system, a story filled with vivid characters, pathos and surprising humor, and the tenacity of a young boy who longs for a normal home--and can't understand why his mother abandoned him or who his father is. No wonder he and his orphan friends omit the tenth commandment--to "honor your father and mother."
As a teenager, the boy finds a home with a supportive couple in a small Oklahoma oil town. Roger Bechan becomes William Holman, who obtains degrees from two universities, marries and raises three sons, and becomes the youngest director of the San Francisco Public Library and an award-winning book designer. Late in life, he discovers the identity of his father--and a new family.