Title:
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Chance in the World: An Orphan Boy, a Mysterious Past, and How He
Found a Place Called Home
Summary: (from Goodreads) From the day he is five-years-old and dropped off at his foster home of the next eleven years, Stephen is mentally and physically tortured. No one in the system can help him. No one can tell him if he has a family. No one can tell him why, with obvious African-American features, he has the last name of Klakowicz.
Along the way, a single faint light comes only from a neighbor’s small acts of kindness and caring—and a box of books. From one of those books he learns that he has to fight in any way he can—for victory is in the battle. His victory is to excel in school.
Against all odds, the author succeeded. He attended college, graduated, became a successful corporate executive, and married a wonderful woman with whom he established a loving family of his own. Through it, he dug voraciously through records and files and found his history, his birth family—and the ultimate disappointment as some family members embrace him, but others reject him.
Rating: Excellent!
Why I Like It: The author of this Book, Steve Pemberton, is the orphan & subject of this book. He does such a terrific job of narrating it on audio! Many of of the reviews indicated on how hard it was to read this book. I found that listening to it, with the author speaking, most likely made it easier & more meaningful. Terrific book & very inspiring!
Other:
audio
Reviewer: Patsy
Reviewer: Patsy
