Tucson Festival of Books

The Long Shadow of Foster Care


National Book Award finalist Claudia Rowe comes to Tucson with a scathing indictment of American foster care. How did an idea filled with good intentions go so terribly wrong? Sadly, it’s a long story.


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Claudia Rowe

National Book Award finalist, Claudia Rowe has been writing about places where youth and government clash since the early 1990s. She is the recipient of a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism and multiple honors for investigative reporting....

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Books:
Wards of the State
The Long Shadow of American Foster Care
Claudia Rowe
Current Issues / Politics / Social Science
Abrams, Incorporated
May 2025
ISBN 9781419763151
304 pages
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The Spider and the Fly
A Reporter, a Serial Killer, and the Meaning of Murder
Claudia Rowe
True Crime
HarperCollins
January 2017
ISBN 9780062497628
384 pages