Despite her numerous achievements in life though, she still suffers from the long-term effects of neglect, and the coping skills that she adapted in her childhood are not always productive in her adult life. Overcoming many adversities, Shen became part of the three percent of all foster care children who get into college, and the one percent who graduate. When a car accident lands her in the hospital with grave injuries and no one comes to visit her during her three-week stay, she realizes she is truly all alone in the world.
Surely she would fare better at a stable home than living with her mother? It turns out that it was not the storybook ending she had hoped for.
After being abandoned by her mother for months at her grandmother's retirement community, she asks to be put into foster care. Finally at the age of thirteen, Shen had had enough. She endures numerous moves in the middle of the night with just minutes to pack, multiple changes in schools, hunger, cruelty, and loneliness. Shenandoah Chefalo is on a wholly dysfunctional journey through a childhood with neglectful, drug-and alcohol addicted parents.
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