Totally true. Captures the emotional tumoil
“I spent 11 miserable years at this boy’s prison in Philadelphia and I appreciate Alan Sharavsky’s account of the life most of us had to endure. Aside from the physical beatings, which were rendered daily, the author truly captures the emotional turmoil and fear-ridden existence some of us were put through. I suffered 30 years of nightmares about that place.
The vulnerability of six and seven-year-old boys seemingly abandoned by their mothers who at the time could barely feed and clothe them is a throwback to the early 20th century when HELP for widowed mothers was non-existent. I highly recommend this book and look forward to any new material on Girard College.”