Andrew Bridge

Sep 23, 2024 | crimereads.com | Andrew Bridge

I wrote Hope’s Boy sixteen years ago. In that memoir, I shared my life with my mom, Hope. I wrote about our lives together while she developed paranoid schizophrenia and apart while I grew up in foster care. I was six when Los Angeles County took me from her and decided to place me in MacLaren Hall. Located on the county’s arid outskirts, MacLaren had been an abandoned polio hospital before it was turned into a holding facility for foster children.

Sep 17, 2024 | kuow.org | Andrew Bridge

The cover of "The Child Catcher" and author Andrew Bridge. (Courtesy of Regalo Press) Editor’s note: The following story deals with suicide. If you have suicidal thoughts, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-8255 (En Español: 1-888-628-9454; Deaf and Hard of Hearing: 1-800-799-4889).

Sep 9, 2023 | audioxide.com | Frederick O'Brien |Andrew Bridge

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