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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.8 / 5.0

You Must read this book:

They Cage the Animals at Night is a terrific and emotional story about Jennings Michael Burch, a young boy who learned to survive in a cold, frightening world. His mother was too sick to care for him and left him in a series of orphanages and institutions. Life in the orphanages was brutal, punishments were cruel, rules were strict, and Jennings was unable to do anything about it. Through all this time, Jennings was taught not to become close to people, because the ones you love, always leave you. At these... more info

They Cage the Animals at Night:

"They Cage the Animals at Night" by Jennings Michael Burch is an autobiography of an eight-year-old boy who faced the perils of an insecure childhood, in everyway possible. Jennings was placed in several children's institutions due to his mother being sick and his father a drunken bum that he'd never met. He was separated from his five other brothers, and placed in orphanages, as a part-timer instead of the orphans (a.k.a. lifers) He bounced from home, to orphanages, to abusive foster homes, to good foster... more info

Truth Be Told:

There is an honesty to "They Cage Animals at Night" that seeps into your soul and makes you feel, care, cry, rage, and finally rejoice. There are many books of survivors of abuse or tragedy, but few touch you to the core such as this. I rank it on the same level as "White Oleander", "Lucky", and "My Fractured Life." An amazing an honest story.

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