NEW YORK—July 18, 2017—Morgan James’s new book release, Silas Dillon of Cary County written by Clifford Schrage, follows vagrant adolescent Silas Dillon who is placed into a bureaucratic foster care system in Cary Island by his emotionally unstable birth mother. Refusing to place him in for adoption, Silas is thrust into various foster homes without proper parental guidance and home-training.
Silas Dillon of Cary County is a harrowing account of childhood homelessness, estrangement, and identity formation while seeking love and nurture. A foster father to six children, Schrage experiences the struggles and frustrations of the foster care and family court system. Silas represents someone who is faced with an unstable childhood and raised by a chemically-dependent mother, leaving him in alienation, anger, and forlornness. It demonstrates how foster children are treated within bureaucracy and unreliable foster care programs.
The narrative chronicles Silas’s experiences in various foster homes and his treatment from his caregivers. As he matures, he seeks his estranged mother to understand the reason she abandoned him and to form a bond with her. Silas’s story exemplifies the tragic tale of an orphan seeking parental care and love as he lives with foster parents who have little to no regard for him.
Silas Dillon of Cary County appeals to readers concerned with homeless people and the issues they face when placed in a foster care system. Though tragic and traumatic, the story offers hope and reassurance to those who are homeless themselves or know someone who is.
If you would like more information about this topic, or to schedule an interview with Clifford Schrage, please call Nickcole Watkins at 516.900.5674.
About the Author:
Besides being a published novelist (A Fruitful Field and Silas Dillon of Cary County) a published poet (Broken Prose, Spoken Poems) and essayist; besides having served as a chaplain of a parochial high school for six years, teaching high school English for twenty-nine years, chairing an English department for two years, coaching high school soccer for ten years, holding a Master’s degree, serving as a youth leader for two years, Cliff is the father of eight children- two biological and six adopted (foreign and domestic), and has been a foster father for seven years to six foster children, experiencing many of the frustrations of working with the bureaucracy of the foster care and family court systems in New York City. He’s been engaged in one lengthy court struggle over one child’s custody. He has also encountered the trauma of losing a child following all the jarring experiences of an enduring terminal illness.
Cliff, with his wife Sherry of thirty-six years, has grown acquainted with parenting, with adoption, with foster care, and with family court in New York, which is somewhat representative of most states; and he’s become concerned about harmful flaws in the system, especially to its children.
More About This Title:
Silas Dillon of Cary County by Clifford Schrage will be released by Morgan James Publishing on July 18, 2017. Silas Dillon —ISBN 978-1683502838—has 264 pages and is being sold as a trade paperback for $16.95
About Morgan James Publishing:
Morgan James publishes trade quality titles designed to educate, encourage, inspire, or entertain readers with current, consistent, relevant topics that are available everywhere books are sold. (www.MorganJamesPublishing.com)
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