Foster kids are often called orphans of the living. It’s a particularly apt designation and rich emotional territory for a novel. Foster kids can neither mourn their missing parents nor fully attach ...
Cris Beam
Cris Beam is the author of To The End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care, forthcoming from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2013, and two other books. She teaches creative writing at Columbia University and New York University. 