The Women Who Raised Me is the remarkable story of Victoria Rowell's jouney out of the foster care system to attain the American Dream--and of the unlikely series of women who lifted, motivated, and inspired her along the way.

From Agatha Armstead--a black Bostonian who was Victoria's longest-term foster mother and first noticed her spark of creativity and talent--to Esther Brooks, a Paris-trained prima ballerina who would become her first mentor at the Cambridge School of Ballet--The Women Who Raised Me is a loving, vivid portrait of all the women who would help Victoria transition out of foster care and into New York City's wild worlds of ballet, acting, and adulthood.