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50 reviewsThe shocking, deeply reported story of a murder-suicide that claimed the lives of six children - and a searing indictment of the American foster care system
"A riveting indictment of the child welfare system... [A] bracing gut punch of a book, We Were Once a Family is a provocative mix of immersive narrative journalism, rigorous social policy analysis and proud advocacy... Asgarian was [. . .] far ahead of any other reporter... Affecting." - Robert Kolker, The Washington Post
On March 26, 2018, rescue workers discovered a crumpled SUV and the bodies of two women and several children at the bottom of a cliff beside the Pacific Coast Highway. Investigators soon concluded that the crash was a murder-suicide, but there was more to Jennifer and Sarah Hart, it turned out, were a white married couple who had adopted the six Black children from two different Texas families in 2006 and 2008.
Behind the family's loving facade, however, was a pattern of abuse and neglect that went ignored as the couple withdrew the children from school and moved across the country. It soon became apparent that the State of Texas knew very little about the two individuals to whom it had given custody of six children - with fateful consequences.
"A harrowing account... We Were Once a Family is a wrenching book... The fact of Asgarian’s involvement is, in a way, a further indictment of the system - one that severed the connections between children and their birth families so thoroughly that a journalist ended up taking it upon herself to bear such crucial responsibilities... Asgarian gives you plenty to think about." - Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times
In the manner of Adrian Nicole LeBlanc's Random Family and other classic works of investigative journalism, Roxanna Asgarian’s We Were Once A Family is a revelation of vulnerable lives; it is also a shattering exposé of the foster care and adoption systems that produ
