Girl unbroken

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"They were five kids with five different fathers and an alcoholic mother who left them to fend for themselves for weeks at a time. Yet through it all they had each other. Rosie, the youngest, is fawned over and shielded by her older sister, Regina. Their mother, Cookie, blows in and out of their lives 'like a hurricane, blind and uncaring to everything in her path'. But when Regina discloses the truth about her abusive mother to her social worker, she is separated from her younger siblings Norman and Rosie. And as Rosie discovers after Cookie kidnaps her from foster care, the one thing worse than being abandoned by her mother is living in Cookie's presence."--provided by publisher.

subjects: Foster children,  Child abuse,  Abused children,  Family,  Children of mentally ill mothers,  Kidnapping,  Ex-foster children,  Children of alcoholics,  Childhood and youth,  Biography,  Case studies,  Farm life, united states,  Women, united states, biography

People: Regina Calcaterra,  Rosie Maloney

Places: United States,  New York (State),  Long Island