Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love Hardcover - 2009 - 1st Edition
by Gwartney, Debra
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"What makes Debra Gwartney’s Live Through This special is its literary precision, its truly startling honesty, and, most of all, its ability to sift through pain and ashes and findnot bitternessbut humor and, always, love. I hope every parent in America reads this wonderful book"Tom Bissell, author of The Father of All Things
Live Through Thisas emotionally wrenching and ultimately redemptive as David Sheff ’s Beautiful Boyis the story of Gwartney’s frantic effort to recover the beautiful, intelligent daughters she cherishes.The harrowing subculture of the American runaway, with its random violence, its horrendously dangerous street drugs, and its patchwork of hidden sheltersnone of them interested in a parent’s griefis captured by Gwartney with brilliant intensity.
Faced with the unraveling of the family she thought she could hold together through blind love,Gwartney begins the painfuland universaljourney of recognizing her own flawed motivations as a mother.The triumph of Gwartney’s story is its sensitive rendering of how all three, over several years, have dug deep for forgiveness and a return to profound love.
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Details
- Title Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love
- Author Gwartney, Debra
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston
- Date 2009-02-11
- Bookseller's Inventory # WAL-Y-0a-00561
- ISBN 9780547054476 / 0547054475
- Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.46 x 5.7 x 0.82 in (21.49 x 14.48 x 2.08 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Teenage girls - West (U.S.), Runaway teenagers - West (U.S.)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008013751
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Summary
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.