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A review by keerriiann
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian
challenging
emotional
medium-paced
3.5
This was a really difficult and heart wrenching story to read about. It’s a reminder of how corrupt, fractured, racist, and classist the child welfare system is in the US.
I felt the author sensationalized the backstories of the birth families and centered herself inappropriately at times. Lots of problems with the system were identified (understandable, because there are no shortage of problems) but no solutions were offered until the epilogue, and they were far too few, in my opinion.
I felt the author sensationalized the backstories of the birth families and centered herself inappropriately at times. Lots of problems with the system were identified (understandable, because there are no shortage of problems) but no solutions were offered until the epilogue, and they were far too few, in my opinion.