The True Life Story of Nobody
A memoir of survival through foster care and the troubled teen industryBy Nemo Monstrum
Length4h 11m
About this audiobook
He was five years old the first time the system took him. What followed was a decade of foster placements, a closed-door adoption, boys ranches in Arizona and Texas, and Provo Canyon School in Utah — where children were sedated, beaten, and billed to Medicaid while the facility's investors collected returns. When the institutions were done with him, the streets were next. Gangs. Homeless camps. People dying around him one by one.
He survived anyway.
The True Life Story of Nobody is his account of that journey — and an investigation into the four-hundred-year machinery behind it. From John Sutter's California slave empire to the Wall Street firms that own today's troubled youth facilities, the pipeline that processed him has never stopped running. It is not broken. It is working exactly as designed.
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length4 hrs 11 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 25, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The True Life Story of Nobody
2A Memoir by Nobody
3Author’s Note
4Prologue: A Legacy of Chaos
5PART ONE: BLOOD AND DIRT
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6Chapter 1: Early Life on Dewey Block
7Chapter 2: Balthazar’s Cruelty
8Chapter 3: Moments of Mischief
9Chapter 4: Hunger, Abandonment, and the Predators
10PART TWO: TAKEN
11Chapter 5: Kidnapped by the System
12Chapter 6: Jada’s House
13PART THREE: SOLD A DREAM
14Chapter 7: The Nice House with the Pool
15Chapter 8: The Smile That Hid Everything
16Chapter 9: Breaking Point
17PART FOUR: THE DESERT
18Chapter 10: Arizona, “Summer Camp”
19Chapter 11: Texas, Even Worse
20Chapter 12: Provo
21PART FIVE: AFTER
22Chapter 13: Gustine
23Chapter 14: Finding My Brothers
24Chapter 15: Sacramento
25Chapter 16: My Child
26Chapter 17: The Trap
27Chapter 18: Richards Boulevard
28Chapter 19: Life Goes On
29PART SIX: THE PRINCE’S PIPELINE
30Chapter 20: Who I Am
31Chapter 21: The Man They Named Everything After
32Chapter 22: The State Finished What Sutter Started
33Chapter 23: The Man Who Rebuilt What They Destroyed
34Chapter 24: Kill the Indian, Save the Man
35Chapter 25: The Letter at My Door
36Chapter 26: The System Targets Resistance, Not Just Race
37Chapter 27: The Prince’s Framework: Why the System Targets Resistant Children
38Chapter 28: Who Owns the Machine
39Chapter 29: Inside the Machine, From Cradle to the Grave
40Chapter 30: The Global Apparatus
41Chapter 31: The Regulatory Void
42Chapter 32: The Alternative the System Suppresses
43Chapter 33: The Evidence Is the Indictment
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