Saving Nia

Saving Nia is a novel based on real life events of children who have been placed in foster care due to a determination that they were being abused or neglected by their parent or caretaker. In this novel the impact of removing children from their homes is unreservedly viewed from the child’s perspective. Nia, the main character, suffers severe emotional trauma following her sudden removal from the only mother she had known, her foster mother, who raised her since infancy. At the age of six, Nia is placed into the home of her biological family whose treatment of her is shockingly abusive. Nia builds a barrier around herself as a way of preserving memories of her mother. As she moves into adolescence and struggles with her sanity, she embarks on a dangerous journey to find and be reunited with her “mother.”