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Title: Come Back
Author: Claire Fontaine, Mia Fontaine
Narrator: Terra Deva, Anne Twomey
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-22-08
Publisher: HarperAudio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 56 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
How does an honor student at one of Los Angeles's finest prep schools - a bright, beautiful girl from a loving home - trade school uniforms and afternoons at the beach for shooting up in the back of a van in rural Indiana? How does her devoted mother emerge from the shock of finding that her daughter has not only disappeared but had been living a secret life for more than a year?
Mother and daughter tell their parallel stories in mesmerizing first-person accounts. Claire Fontaine's story is a parent's worst nightmare, a cautionary tale chronicling her daughter Mia's drug-fueled manipulation of everyone around her as she sought refuge in the seedy underworld of criminals and heroin addicts, the painful childhood secrets that led up to it, and the healing that followed. Her search for Mia was brutal for both mother and daughter, a dizzying series of dead ends, incredible coincidences and, at times, miracles.
Ultimately, Mia was forced into harsh-but-loving boot camp schools on two continents while Claire entered a painful but life-changing program of her own. Mia's story includes the jarring culture shock of the extreme and controversial behavior modification school she was in for nearly two years, which helped her overcome depression and self-hatred to emerge a powerful young woman with self-esteem and courage.
An unforgettable story of love and transformation, Come Back is a heart-wrenching and humorous portrayal of the primal bond between mother and daughter that will resonate with women everywhere.
Editorial Reviews:
The mature, concerned voice of Anne Twomey and the girlish, occasionally petulant voice of Terra Deva take turns telling the brutal mother-daughter story of Claire and Mia Fontaine in this memoir of recovery, Come Back.
Mia was a straight-A student at a Los Angeles prep school when she (almost) inexplicably fell into a world of hard drugs and bad influences, quickly dropping out of school and moving to rural Indiana to shoot up in the back of a van with a boyfriend. Her mother, Claire, went into action, hunting her daughter down and eventually placing her in a European Academy for troubled kids. The dual voices in this audiobook distinguish it from other narratives in the recovery genre.
