Crossing the Water
By Daniel Robb
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Review
Rating: 9
From Publishers Weekly:
Disturbing, funny and often wise, this memoir charts Robb’s 18 months as a resident teacher working with troubled youth at a small progressive school on a remote, picturesque island near the Massachusetts coast. At first Robb, a writer and editor, approaches his position at the Penikese Island School as just another job, but soon his interaction with the small group of teenage boys becomes as challenging and rewarding as that of a family, transforming everyone in the process. The school administrator and Robb’s fellow teachers, unswayed by the legal transgressions of the juvenile offenders, see only young boys who can be redeemed with adult supervision, hard work, clean air, healthy food, scheduled activity and fun.
I picked up this book a number of years ago and read half of it at the time, I need to get back to it.
The memoirs of a teacher who goes to work at a unique residential treatment program for young men thats located off of Cape Cod.
You want a hot bath, you better have chopped the wood to heat the water over a stove. You want food, you better have worked the farm. Clean clothes? you need to have washed them in the stream.
I’ll write a better report after I get a good read through this again.
