Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
Seven foster homes, then the Air Force, Yale and Cambridge, and the memoir where luxury beliefs got their fullest and most personal statement.
Henderson moved through seven foster homes in California before the Air Force, Yale and Cambridge, and writes about the distance between those worlds without flattering either one. The memoir is also where luxury beliefs received their fullest statement: ideas that cost the affluent nothing to hold, and cost the people he grew up among a great deal.
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Tyler Cowen
Rob Henderson, Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class. Yes, that is the Rob Henderson of Twitter and Substack. He was raised by foster parents and joined the Air Force at the age of seventeen. He ended up with a Ph.D. from Cambridge. This is his story, it covers class in America, and it is a paean to family stability.
Source · December 2023
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