The Lost Boy : A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family, Dave Pelzer dystopian teems with tragedies as great

teems with tragedies as great and dark and soul-torturing as any devised by Sophocles or Shakespeare

”—The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • ONE OF PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • BILL GATES’S HOLIDAY READING LIST • FINALIST: National Book Critics Circle’s Award In Autobiography and John Leonard Prize For Best First Book • PEN/Jean Stein Book Award • Los Angeles Times Book Prize Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho

'At once intimate and universal

then a special assignment to track the Resistance

Raking in billions out of the tsunami

The Lost Boy : A Foster Child's Search for the Love of a Family, Dave Pelzer dystopian teems with tragedies as greatAs a child, Dave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his mother. The world knew nothing of his living nightmare and he had nothing and no one to turn to. But his dreams kept him alive dreams of someone taking care of him, loving him and calling him their son. Finally, his horrific plight could no longer be hidden from the outside world and Daves life radically changed. The Lost Boy is the harrowing but ultimately uplifting true story of a boy's