Download or read book My Stone of Hope written by Jean-Robert Cadet and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cadet tells the story of his youth as a restavek, a practice of using children as unpaid and uneducated domestic workers often subjected to physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. He is an advocate for these children and argues that the practice has created damaged adults incapable of participating in a productive economy--From P. [4] of cover.