{"product_id":"2940170744008","title":"Hope's Boy: A Memoir","description":"When Andrew Bridge was seven years old, he and his mother-a mentally unstable woman who loved her child more than she could care for him-slid deeper and deeper into poverty, until they were reduced to scavenging for food in trash bins. Welfare officials did little more than threaten to take Andrew away, until a social worker arrived with a police escort and did just that while his mother screamed on the sidewalk. And so began Andrew's descent into the foster care system-\"care\" being a terrible irony, as he received almost none for the next eleven years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcademic achievement was Andrew's ticket out of hell-a scholarship to Wesleyan University led to Harvard Law School and a Fulbright Scholarship. Now an accomplished adult, he has dedicated his life to working on behalf of the frightened children still lost in the system. \u003ci\u003eHope's Boy\u003c\/i\u003e is his story, a story of endurance and the power of love and, most of all, of hope.","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47100708389104,"sku":"2940170744008","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170744008_p0.jpg?v=1763715880","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170744008","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}