Amara's Reviews > Home Made: A Story of Grief, Groceries, Showing Up--and What We Make When We Make Dinner

This was a valuable read, to get a glimpse into the lives of these boys. Big swathes of people in our country start life behind the 8-ball. There is no way to intelligently blame children for where they start life. But this book also shows how difficult it is to make a real difference in the life trajectory of someone starting life addicted (through womb transfer), or starting life with no family and no resources. Neither of these characteristics make a teenager less human. And I appreciated how closely the author brings us to this humanity in each boy, and thus reminds us of our responsibility to help! The little she does (big sacrifices on her part) communicate love and caring through consistency, and her refusal to get pushed away, through her humility to be corrected when she misunderstands. These boys know she cares and I have to believe it must help the trauma inside of them. She makes some sweeping recommendations at the end for services, but I'm not sure which things would work. Contrary to some popular public rhetoric right now, her recognition of the disparities between between black and brown and white peoples do not paint these boys as victims. These boys are resilient tough human beings doing the best they can.