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Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love

Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love

Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed
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Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love

by Gwartney, Debra

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ISBN 13
9780547054476
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Used - Very Good. A bright, square, and overall a nice copy

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An intensely emotional and redemptive memoir about a mother's mission to rescue her runaway daughters   After a miserably failed marriage, Debra Gwartney moves with her four young daughters to Eugene, Oregon, for a new job and what she hopes will be a new life for herself and her family. The two oldest, Amanda, 14, and Stephanie, 13, blame their mother for what happened, and one day the two run off together—to the streets of their own city, then San Francisco, then nowhere to be found. The harrowing subculture of the American runaway, with its random violence, its horrendously dangerous street drugs, and its patchwork of hidden shelters is captured by Gwartney with brilliant intensity in Live Through This as she sets out to find her girls. Though she thought she could hold her family together by love alone, Gwartney recognizes over the course of her search where she failed. It's a testament to her strength—and to the resilience of her daughters—that after several years they are a family again, forged by both forgiveness and love.

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Title
Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love
Author
Gwartney, Debra
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Binding
Trade Cloth
ISBN 10
0547054475
ISBN 13
9780547054476
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Place of Publication
Boston
This edition first published
2009-02-11

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