Synopsis This stunning mother-daughter memoir illustrates that tough love can sometimes be strong enough to diminish the damage of domestic abuse. Claire Fontaine, a Hollywood screenwriter, thought that her daughter Mia had overcome the trauma of being abused by her biological father, but in adolescence, Mia began to disappear into a dark world of addiction and self-mutilation. Claire and Mia's stepfather pursued their runaway daughter across the country and eventually committed her to the Morava Academy, a disciplinary institute in the Czech Republic. Told in parallel by mother and daughter, COME BACK follows the dual trajectories of Claire and her husband's intensive family therapy and Mia's tour of the criminal underworld and the rigid confinement of Morava, where she began to realize the redemptive power of love.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2007-03-01 | | Edition Description: | Reprint |
| Size | | Length: | 311 pages | | Height: | 9.3 in | | Width: | 6.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 12.8 oz |
Publisher's Note 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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