The Unbreakable Child by Kim Michele Richardson

The Unbreakable Child by Kim Michele Richardson

The Unbreakable Child, a story about forgiving the unforgivable, is a riveting journey inside the secretive underbelly of the St. Thomas/St. Vincent Orphan Asylum in rural Kentucky. It is the first book in the United States to confront the institutionalized physical and emotional abuse suffered by countless orphans at the hands of Catholic clergy over these last decades. It also documents the historic United States lawsuit and first-ever settlement paid by Roman Catholic nuns in the United States as recompense for decades of brutal institutional abuse of the author, her sisters, and 42 other children.

Kim Michele Richardson is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Southern fiction, including The Sisters of Glass Ferry, Liar's Bench, GodPretty in the Tobacco Field, and The Book Lady of Troublesome Creek, which was a LibraryReads pick, an IndieNext pick, a Books-A-Million Best Fiction pick, an Oprah's Buzziest Books pick, and a Women's National Book Association pick. She is a volunteer for Habitat for Humanity and an advocate for the prevention of child abuse and domestic violence. She was born in Kentucky and now lives in North Carolina part-time. Please go to KimMicheleRichardson.com to learn more about her.