The Lost Years: Surviving a Mother and Daughter's Worst

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The Lost Years: Surviving a Mother and Daughter's Worst Nightmare

A child caught in the horror of alcohol and drug addition. A mother helplessly standing by unable to save her. The Lost Years is the real life story of just such a mother and child, each giving their first-hand accounts of the years lost to addiction and despair. Kristina, the second of four children, tells how she turns to alcohol for comfort when she is thirteen. She gives a brutally honest description of her descent into addiction, prostitution, burglary and violent rape until her near death on the floor of a homeless shelter completely alone at the age of twenty-one. Adding a heart-wrenching counterpart to the story, Kristina's mother, Connie, tells of her powerlessness to help her addicted daughter, the break-up of her unhappy marriage and how she comes to terms with her own co-dependency. She is also faced with the worst choice a mother has to make, to close the door on Kristina, sending her onto the streets in order to save herself and protect her other children. Then follows the remarkable story of Kristina's recovery as she lives through rehab, her mother's tough love and the years of acclimating herself to living a normal life.
Country USA
Brand Jeffers Press
Manufacturer Jeffers Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780977761814
ReleaseDate 2006-08-15
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780977761814

Country	USA
Brand	Jeffers Press
Manufacturer	Jeffers Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780977761814
ReleaseDate	2006-08-15
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780977761814

The Lost Years: Surviving a Mother and Daughter's Worst Nightmare

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