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Sorry, but I feel I need to add this – for a fictional story, protagonist-antagonist conflict is important. You can skip that for non-fiction books or memoir because that’s a commentary on the real world we live in and information about it, for which the “wow, this happened in real life!” is enough to draw us in. That doesn’t work for fiction because it didn’t happen in real life, so we need a conflict between the protagonist and antagonist to explain why we should care. (Why should we care about Jane’s foster care nightmare?)

This is a fiction book about the foster care system that is written like a memoir instead of a fiction story, heh. If you want to write memoir or biography about this, then do so, but yeah. Otherwise it almost reads like sad poetry. Which is fine: I like sad poetry, but yeah.