Come Back: A Mother and Daughter's Journey Through Hell and Back - Softcover

Claire Fontaine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060859717 ISBN 13: 9780060859718

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2007

Synopsis

Narrated from both the mother's and daughter's perspective, a compelling memoir describes the life of a teenage runaway; her mother's journey into the dark and sinister underbelly of drugs, pimps, and violence to find and rescue her daughter; and the daughter's struggle back to life in a harsh-but-loving boot camp school in which she overcame self-hatred and depression to find herself. Reprint.

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Review:

"Best mother-daughter memoir." -- Glamour

Best mother-daughter memoir. --Glamour

"Best mother-daughter memoir."--Glamour

"A rare, visceral reading experience....Offering lessons in living, loving, and accepting responsibility that could benefit every reader."--Edwin John Wintle, author of Breakfast with Tiffany: An Uncle's Memoir

"A nightmarish saga of a teenage runaway in L.A. ends triumphantly. . . . Heart-wrenching, honest dialogue."--Publishers Weekly

"A powerful and moving story of two brave women who struggled through darkness into the light."--Susan Forward, Ph.D., author of Toxic Parents

"One of those rare books I could hardly put down until I finished. . . . Brilliant--and often funny, too!"--Leah Komaiko, author of Am I Old Yet?

"Come Back is a testament to the power of the love between a mother and a daughter."--New York Times Book Review

"We strongly recommend this powerful mother-daughter memoir...Intense, shocking, and ultimately triumphant..."--Barnes & Noble

Come Back is a testament to the power of the love between a mother and a daughter. --New York Times Book Review"

Synopsis:

After fifteen-year-old Mia runs away from home in the middle of the night, her mother, Claire, enters the dark and sinister world of runaways, prisons, and pimps to save her daughter in an inspiring true story of the love and courage that connects mother to daughter. "Come Back" is the true story of how life catapulted fifteen-year-old Mia into hell and how Claire sacrificed everything to save her daughter-searching gutters, alleys, and deserts in three states to find her again and again, by dumb luck and, perhaps, divine intervention. Ultimately, Claire had to give Mia up to get her back, forcing her into boot camp schools in Eastern Europe and Montana. "Come Back" is told in both mother and daughter's words and it is truly a remarkable story of transformation as they both come to terms with their pasts and their pain to save each other.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0060859717
• ISBN 13: 9780060859718
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320