Jon Clinch
Author of Finn, Marley and Kings of the Earth
"Sharavsky has dug deep for this gripping and emotional memoir, exposing a childhood sure to leave as big a mark on the reader as it did on the writer. Unforgettable."
Debra Schilling Wolfe
MEd, Executive Director, University of Pennsylvania Center for Children
"Sharavsky's experiences, as depicted in this moving book, provide an important lens into the loneliness and fear felt by children who feel vulnerable and unprotected. Boarding School Bastard eloquently portrays the trauma experienced by victims and witnesses to child abuse."
Nancy Christie
Author of Traveling Left of Center and Other Stories and The Gifts of Change
“While aspects are reminiscent of Oliver Twist, especially the deliberate cruelties inflicted by many of the adults, Sharavsky’s story is also a testament to the resilience of children who travel through painful events. Touching, and at times, humorous, this memoir will linger long in the reader’s mind.”
Annette Libeskind Berkovits
Author of In the Unlikeliest of Places and Confessions of an Accidental Zoo Curator.
"Alan Sharavsky’s Boarding School Bastard is a ‘Me Too’ manifesto from a male perspective. Writing in crisp prose, laced with humor, Sharavsky immerses a reader in the travails of childhood and adolescence. But his is not an ordinary coming of age story."
