Are there some things Mommy just can’t fix? When the Bough Breaks, a memoir, is a mother’s story of heartbreak, courage, and redemption.
When Nancy Ferraro adopted a little boy from Romania, she was full of dreams for the life she would give a disadvantaged child and how he would complete her little family. She thought she was giving her son a little brother.
George arrived in the suburbs of New Jersey a mentally handicapped, feral child; a wild animal in the body of a boy. The violence he rained down on his new family nearly destroyed the author and everything she believed motherhood was supposed to be.
The author does not claim to be an angel, a victim, or a hero … just a mom who, whether by happenstance or mistake, was plunged into a nightmare and lived to tell the tale. Nancy Ferraro tells her story with raw honesty, courage, and the light moments that make the horrific bearable. She sheds light into that dark place where there seems to be no end to our children’s troubles. When the Bough Breaks welcomes you to her journey.
Nancy Ferraro lives in Florida with her attack Chihuahua, where she runs her Estate Planning law practice. She is a member of the Authors Guild, and has been published in Charleston City Paper, Virginian Pilot, and others. She received her first rejection letter for her writing at the age of nine. Her next book, Lust in an Elevator, is a humorous geriatric love story.
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