{ "item_title" : "The Girl Who Walked Out of The File", "item_author" : [" Jade G. Thomas "], "item_description" : "What if the official record of your life wasn't the same as the life you remember?At forty-four, Jade Thomas opened the social care files written about her as a child.Inside was an official version of her childhood: assessments, referrals, school reports, professional observations and decisions. Fourteen schools. Repeated interventions. Adults recording what they saw, what they believed-and what they failed to see.Then there was the childhood she remembered.The violence. The racism. The disappearances and disruptions. The things a child learned not to say. The extraordinary work of surviving a life while adults were busy documenting it.The Girl Who Walked Out of the File brings those two versions together.Using extracts from the archive alongside memory, poetry and prose, Jade returns to the records that once spoke for her and begins to speak back. What emerges is not simply a story about what happened to one child, but an interrogation of something much larger: who gets to decide which version of a life becomes true?What happens when an institution writes about a person but never really knows them? What survives outside the record? And how much of any life can ever be contained in a file?At once intimate and formally inventive, The Girl Who Walked Out of the File is a memoir about childhood, race, class, care, silence and survival, and about the dangerous authority we give to things simply because somebody wrote them down.A child became a file.Decades later, the woman opened it.And answered back.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/817/827/9798178277294_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "25.09", "online_price" : "25.09", "our_price" : "25.09", "club_price" : "25.09", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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