Beyond a "tell-all" about Levin's nineteen years in a foster home, PROSPECTING HEART leads the reader through pithy essays profiling how the author prospected for and wrung out the necessary lifeblood for her "heart" to endure. Prospecting Heart: My Childhood in a Foster Home highlights the resentful parent and his legacy, the disappearance of support from the biological family, and the ultimate wisdom and support that came from a psychiatrist.