When Deborah Gold and her husband signed up to foster parent in
their rural mountain community, they did not foresee that it would
lead to a roller-coaster fifteen years of involvement with a
traumatized yet resilient birth family. They fell in love with
Michael (a toddler when he came to them), yet they had to reckon
with the knowledge that he could leave their lives at any time. In
Counting Down, Gold tells the story of forging a family within a
confounding system. We meet social workers, a birth mother with the
courage to give her children the childhood she never had herself,
and a father parenting from prison. We also encounter members of a
remarkable fellowship of Appalachian foster parents-gay, straight,
right, left, evangelical, and atheist-united by love, loss, and
quality hand-me-downs. Gold's memoir is one of the few books to
deliver a foster parent's perspective (and, through Michael's own
poetry and essays, that of a former foster child). In it, she
shakes up common assumptions and offers a powerfully frank and
hopeful look at an experience often portrayed as bleak.
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