A review by taylormoore6
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian

challenging dark emotional informative sad fast-paced

5.0

This is about the murders of 6 adopted children and all of the ways the systems failed them. Instead of focusing on the perpetrators of this crime, the author focuses on the birth families and the failure of the systems set in place. I’m so grateful to the author for writing this story. This narrative was told with so much compassion and empathy. These systems - the judicial system, child welfare system, prison systems are racist. They attack and upend the lives of poor, black and brown, disabled, mentally ill, etc. people that are already in precarious situations. This work is important and everyone should read it.