Arrive. Endure. Age Out.
Three challenges in the life
​of a foster child.


​Another Place Called Home is a sensitive new memoir about surviving foster care.

A story that begins with the unimaginable for a child: losing her home. A time of fear and confusion for a young girl. Then her journeys begin: the heartbreak and stigma of living in multiple homes and a foster care institution; re-unification hopes with an unpredictable parent; bullying by angry teens; life in a dusty factory town. Soon she will be too old to be chosen for placement with a family. She will have spent her youth in the shadow of an institution, then lose even that rough shelter, as she must “age out.”

A story told in the voice of a young girl, as her destiny becomes clear...

Another Place Called Home revisits a childhood in the most difficult of circumstances. It honors the experience of any youth in the foster care system. It tells what a foster child would want to be made known. It tells what beginning life as a discard is like. And how the future for them seems already made from sadness and thin air.

Another Place Called Home: Surviving Foster Care
a memoir
Susan DuMond

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An articulate, painful, and touching journey... well-honed, primarily present-tense prose lends an air of immediacy to the memoir.

Kirkus Reviews

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Every young person enduring hardships should read this book. Anyone aspiring to improve troubled youth’s lives will also benefit and gain fresh insight.

Charlene Setlow

Sponsor and Advocate
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American Association of University Women (STEM)

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Susan DuMond’s riveting memoir, Another Place Called Home, shines a bright light on territory unknown to most of us, the foster care system, and explores it from the candid point of view of a child struggling not only to survive but to construct a way to thrive.

Molly Best Tinsley

Author and Publisher
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FUZE Publishing

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“Notes” of interest...

Brief essays, by the author and guest columnists, news leads and other voices from the foster care community. How this book steps into the world. Coming in July.