Silas Dillon of Cary County
Childhood homelessness leads to estrangement... Love and nurturing engender well-being.
An inflexible, bureaucratic foster care system which outwardly represents the best interests of children, in actuality impedes Silas Dillon’s need to be adopted into a caring home. Fictional, eighty square mile, suburban Cary Island—set in New York Bay, with a population of three hundred thousand—has a foster care system typical of most in the U.S. As the system’s paradoxical catering to Silas’s mother’s challenges are tried, making her somewhat of a “client” rather than Silas, years of his precious childhood pass. Lonely, damaged, fragile, bi-racial Silas Dillon is bounced through two attempts of reuniting with his neglectfully abusive mother, and several foster homes—one which is severely abusive, and two which are ingenuously nurturing. From birth to adolescence, the painful episodes of Silas Dillon’s life lead to an anticipated rescue and healing.
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"Cliff Schrage is an artist, but his tools are not paint or brush. Instead, using rich metaphors, engaging descriptions, and entertaining dialogue, Silas Dillon of Cary County is a brilliant and sobering picture of the realities of the foster care system. Writing from a deep understanding of how foster care works, Cliff invites readers to follow the life of Silas Dillon throughout the twists and turns of a quest to be loved, accepted, and taken in."
—Amazon review 
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