Falling Up the Stairs - Hartson, R. C.
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Five-year-old Joey Harrison's world is turned upside down when he and his seven-year-old sister, Beth, are placed in foster care in 1942. With the war in Europe underway and the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan, the children's father joins the Army despite the pleadings of his young wife. From 1941 until 1947 Joey's mother will have five additional children fathered by another man. All of the children are subsequently placed in foster care where Joey and his siblings suffer unconscionable abuse at the hands of foster parents. They are shifted from foster care to foster care, including one stay…mehr

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Five-year-old Joey Harrison's world is turned upside down when he and his seven-year-old sister, Beth, are placed in foster care in 1942. With the war in Europe underway and the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japan, the children's father joins the Army despite the pleadings of his young wife. From 1941 until 1947 Joey's mother will have five additional children fathered by another man. All of the children are subsequently placed in foster care where Joey and his siblings suffer unconscionable abuse at the hands of foster parents. They are shifted from foster care to foster care, including one stay in an orphanage for Joey. Joey's mother is age 40 when she dies due to cirrhosis of the liver and the children's father petitions the State of New York, requesting that Joey come and live with him. What follows for the boy, as well as his siblings, is a loveless path of more foster homes, formidable hurdles, and abuse until Joey ultimately triumphs and reaches the top of the stairs. It's an inspirational journey the reader will witness as they see Joey and his six siblings become reunited after overcoming multiple hardships and are finally reunited over twenty-five years later.
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R.C. Hartson began his writing in 1967 when he attended Columbia College in Chicago. Three years later he was in the business sector working for Gulf Oil Corporation. He didn't take up his writing again until 1994 when he met his wife, Lynie. She encouraged his to follow his path as a writer. The winner of numerous awards for his short stories and poetry among those, a poem Shadows of Iwo Jima was published by the Marines in their Leatherneck magazine in 2003. His other novels are Detective/Crime genre featuring protagonist, private detective Cleve Hawkins. Fatal Beauty was released in 2015 and Triple Crossed followed in 2016. A third novel, a family saga titled Falling Up the Stairs was released in 2017. A retired U.S. Marine, R.C. is married, with five children and eight grandchildren and lives with his beautiful wife, Lynie, in gorgeous Western Michigan.