When I Was Her Daughter

Awards:2023 Readers' Favorite International Book Awards Gold Medal Winner Non-fiction - Memoir2023 Outstanding Creator Awards (winter) Third-place Winner Best Non-fiction Book2023 Outstanding Creator Awards (winter) First-place Winner In Family2023 Outstanding Creator Awards (winter) Second-place Winner In Autobiographies And Memoirs2023 Outstanding Creator Awards (winter) Third-place Winner In Womens Non-fiction & Womens Issues2023 Outstanding Creator Awards (winter) Third-place Winner In Motivational Inspirational2023 Pencraft Awards Seasonal Winner (winter 2023) In Memoir2022 Memoir Prize For Books Winner In Resilience2022 Firebird Book Awardsnbsp;first-place Winner In Parenting And Family2022nbsp;firebird Book Awards First-place Winner In Coming Of Age2022 Firebird Book Awardsnbsp;first-place Winner In Psychiatrypsychologysummary:this Award-winning Work Of Narrative Nonfiction Is A Raw And Haunting Account Of One Girls Journey Through Madness, Loss, And A Broken Child Welfare System In Los Angeles In The 1980s.seven-year-old Leslie Has A Serious Problem. Someone Is Trying To Kill Her.her Mother Roberta Suffers From Paranoid Schizophrenia, And She Writes Rambling Manifestos And Forces Her Children To Live On The Run To Evade Capture By The Russian Spies She Believes Are After Them.with Every Psychotic Break, Leslie And Her Younger Brother Face Terrifying Circumstances Despite The Fact That Robertas Only Wish Is To Protect Them. Who Will Help Them When She Is Convinced That Killing Them Will Save Them From A Worse Fate?when Separated From Her Family And Thrust Into Foster Care For The Foreseeable Future, Leslie Navigates A Kind Of Fear And Loneliness.