Marc parent author biography

MARC PARENT is the author of Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize as well as a New Visions nominee and a NEBA Honorary Selection, and Believing It All: What My Children Taught Me.
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Marc Parent is the author of "Turning Stones: My Days & Nights with Children at Risk" & has written for the "New York Times" & "USA Today" among other.

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Books by Marc Parent

Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk
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4.12 avg rating — 865 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions

The Secret Society of Demolition Writers
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3.08 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 2005 — 16 editions

Believing It All: Lessons I Learned from My Children
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4.10 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 2001 — 15 editions

Gerard Malanga: Screen Tests, Portraits, Nudes 1964-1996
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4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions

Believing It All: What My Children Taught Me about Trout Fishing, Jelly Toast, and Life
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2014

Stella
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3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2000

Nonfiction Bestsellers: Volume 1: Who Wants to Be Me?, Empty Promises, the Rescue Season, Beleiving It All
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating

La casa del coniglio bianco
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating

Pretty Little Liars Coloring Book: P

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Marc Parent

Early life

Marc Parent was born February 5, 1961, in Verdun, Quebec. At the age of 12, he joined the 51st Air Cadet Squadron in Ottawa but later switched to the 783rd Air Cadet Squadron in Montreal. He obtained his pilot’s license through the Air Cadets at age 17 and was an Air Cadet for six years.

Education

In 1984, Parent graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnique Montreal, an engineering school affiliated with the Université de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec. Parent also completed an Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Career

Parent began his career in 1984 as an aerospace engineer with Canadair, a civil and military aircraft manufacturer in Canada. He began with the Challenger and Canadair Regional Jet programs and continued with them after Canadair was sold to Bombardier by the Mulroney Government in 1986. In 1987, Parent became Manager of the Challenger’s mechanical systems. Three years later, he was tasked with setting up Bombardier’s flight testing and certification center in Wichita,

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Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk

September 8, 2008

I think this book is valuable for building empathy for what kids in the foster care system experience, and for showing the difficult circumstances under which investigative workers work (e.g., a two-week training period, even for those with no relevant experience and unrelated fields of study; large caseloads and limited resources). It is also interesting to consider that Parent never learns the outcomes of any children whose cases he investigates (other than those whose cases are reported in the media, presumably). I would think this would be a very difficult aspect of the job, but Parent remarks on it only briefly at the end of the book.

Unfortunately, the writing style is over the top. For example: "...Ms. Jacobs was sweating a kiddie pool in her bed. She scratched with animal intensity throughout he night, creating a racket like a collision in slow motion--like the sound of fire (p. 90)." The same woman later "[cried] like a stifled popgun... (p. 94)," and she "worked like a sled husky (p. 96)." Also,