The American writer Rob Henderson defied steep odds to “succeed” in the world, but his thoughtful memoir is less concerned with that familiar narrative than with the idea that our values need to be recalibrated: family stability, in his eyes, matters far more for a child than academic achievement. “I’ve heard variations of the phrase ‘I’m grateful for what I went through, because it made me who I am today’”, he writes. “Despite what I’m proud to have accomplished, I strongly disagree with this sentiment.”
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