Main description:

Pediatrician Carolyn Roy-Bornstein and her husband had a comfortably empty nest after their sons had grown and flown. Soon after, Carolyn noticed that two of her patients struggled after their father died of cancer and their mother became too mentally ill to care for them. As a result, they were both placed in foster care, where one developed a severe eating disorder and the other began self-harming.

In a leap of faith, Carolyn and her husband opened their home to these sisters and became their foster parents. Carolyn, despite being a doctor, was unprepared for the harsh realities of severe anorexia, depression and grueling treatment. She had worked as a pediatrician for the Department of Children and Families for years, but still was not equipped for the bureaucratic struggles she would face to save her youngest foster child from a brutal eating disorder. This book outlines the struggles of a fledgling foster family who, despite all odds, remains devoted to one another throughout the healing process.

Contents:

Acknowledgments
Section I-In the Beginning
Prologue
One. A Loving Leap of Faith
Two. Where Is Home?
Three. Insiders
Four. A Relationship in Venn Diagrams
Five. Facing Demons
Six. It Takes Courage to Believe
Section II-In the Throes
Seven. Boarding the Struggle Bus
Eight. Together, Alone
Nine. Warding Off Demons
Ten. Not Enough Tears in the World
Eleven. The Sign
Twelve. This Is How I Lose Her
Thirteen. The Standoff
Fourteen Living in the Slipstream
Section III-In Coda
Fifteen. A Rocky Road Gets Rockier
Sixteen. As Close to Death as This
Seventeen. The Fight of Our Lives
Eighteen. Doubling Down on Love
Epilogue
Index