In this adult memoir, Janice Erlbaum returns to the NYC shelter where she once lived as a teenager to volunteer. She wants to "give something back." Instead she gets sucked into the world of one of the troubled girls, a nineteen-year-old junkie who is one heck of a manipulator. Janice doesn't know it at the time, but Samantha is an expert at controlling people. By the end of the book, Janice knows that she was duped, but the deception has already caused emotional turmoil in those surrounding her. This is purely a tale of deception. And Munchausen's syndrome, too.
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