Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World audiobook runs 11.8 hours unabridged, narrated by Dorothy Roberts and Janina Edwards (about 7.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 11.8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 24 days |
| 1 hour / day | 12 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 8 days |
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What our data says
- At 11.8 hours, it runs longer than 83% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Janina Edwards
Janina Edwards narrates 359 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,955 hours in all.
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About as long, on the Social Science shelf
1,231 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
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Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World is an audiobook by Dorothy Roberts: a 11.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Dorothy Roberts and Janina Edwards, released April 5, 2022, on the Social Science and Current Affairs, Law, & Politics shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 11.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Dorothy Roberts, Janina Edwards
- Released
- April 5, 2022
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Social Science, Current Affairs, Law, & Politics
- ISBN
- 9781549193170
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is the Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World audiobook?
Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World runs 11.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.9 hours.
Is the Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World audiobook free?
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Who narrates Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World?
Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World is narrated by Dorothy Roberts and Janina Edwards.
Is Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.9 hours, saving 3.9 hours.