{"product_id":"the-courage-we-lack-voices-of-resilient-childhood-9781939256263","title":"The Courage We Lack: Voices of Resilient Childhood","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Bruno Rosario Candelier | Walter J. Maldonado | Idalis Chapellin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Ihya Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Ihya Publishing\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Children's Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more than a quarter century, \u003cb\u003eMilagros de Jes�s de F�liz\u003c\/b\u003e has walked the streets of Santiago de los Caballeros as a volunteer advocate for the working children of the Dominican Republic - children whose courage, resilience, and dignity rarely make it into the headlines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Courage We Lack\u003c\/i\u003e gathers their testimonies. Drawn from twenty-six years of frontline service and five years of return conversations with young adults the author first met as children, this is sociographic nonfiction at its most unflinching: real names changed where needed, real lives faithfully told. Each story is grouped by theme and introduced by a short summary to guide the reader through a world that lives in plain sight - at traffic-light corners, in central streets, in neighborhoods the comfortable classes pass by without seeing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a foreword by \u003cb\u003eDr. Bruno Rosario Candelier\u003c\/b\u003e, Director of the Dominican Academy of Language, and translated by a team led by \u003cb\u003eDr. Walter J. Maldonado\u003c\/b\u003e of Florida International University, this English edition brings to a wider audience a work the original Spanish reviewers called a \"radiograf�a social\" - a social X-ray - of a city, a population, and a generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEssential reading for social workers, educators, human rights advocates, students of Latin America, and any reader who believes the dignity of childhood is not negotiable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlso available in Spanish: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eEl coraje que nos falta: Voces de la ni�ez que resiste\u003c\/i\u003e (ISBN: 978-969-9092-87-9). Search the title on Amazon to find the original Spanish edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ihya Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47892002766999,"sku":"9781939256263","price":1738.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781939256263.webp?v=1781185433","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-courage-we-lack-voices-of-resilient-childhood-9781939256263","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}