{"product_id":"9781400176069","title":"Hope's Boy: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tantor Media, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47095398039792,"sku":"9781400176069","price":16.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781400176069_p0.jpg?v=1763711840","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781400176069","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}