In this Joespeak Podcast, Author Leslie Ferguson shares thoughts on her memoir “When I Was Her Daughter, a compelling story of her difficult upbringing with a severely mentally ill mother who vacillated between harming herself and harming her children. She chronicles being homeless, and having things get worse in foster care when she finally spoke up for herself. Leslie discusses the duplicity and ironies that she saw around her, and how she had to make sense of it all, as if she was an adult, while being a child. Finally, Leslie talks about finding home with a grade school teacher (and her husband) who rescued her from the uncertain life that she had to live.