Leslie’s Substack The Memoir Treatment

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About Leslie Ferguson

Leslie Ferguson's award-winning memoir, When I Was Her Daughter, holds keys to the ever-elusive meaning of life—and a raw and haunting glimpse at madness, loss, and survival as a foster kid in the 1980s.

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