Live Through This
A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love
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Narrated by:
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Joyce Bean
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Written by:
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Debra Gwartney
About this listen
Live Through This - as emotionally wrenching and ultimately redemptive as David Sheff's Beautiful Boy - is 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 shelters---none of them interested in a parent's grief---is 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 painful---and universal---journey toward 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.
©2008 Debra Gwartney (P)2009 TantorWhat the critics say
"Truly absorbing." (Library Journal Starred Review)