With an impeccable ear for the nuance of disaffected youth, Ann Raber brings a fierce yet wistful voice to the story of Guy Kordell: pizza man, convicted juvenile arsonist, punk rock margin dweller. Foster Care enlists readers as character witnesses to Guy's instinctive, unconscious gropings for identity and connection across a vivid inner landscape littered with sleazy encounters, vague but insistent menace, and warm, unexpected alliances, all to a relentless soundtrack of Screeching Weasel.