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Claire Fontaine's relentless cross-country search for her missing child and ultimate decision to force her into treatment in Eastern Europe is a gripping tale of dead ends, painful revelations, and, at times, miracles.
From Publishers Weekly. A nightmarish saga of a teenage runaway in L.A. ends triumphantly thanks to love and support from her screenwriter mom and stepdad. At 15, Mia gets involved in a dangerous drug and Wicca scene, stunning her successful, controlling mother, Claire, and stepfather, Paul.
Comeback: A Mother and Daughter's Journey Through Hell and Back. Claire Fontaine, Mia Fontaine. 3.93. 10,625 ratings958 reviews. How does an honor student at one of Los Angeles's finest prep schools--a nice girl from a happy, loving home--trade school uniforms and afternoons at the mall for speedballs in the back of a truck in rural Indiana?
Unfolding in alternating first-person accounts, the book reveals the tragic roots of Mia's "sudden" rebellion and illuminates the dramatic struggle of mother and daughter to breach a great divide. Intense, shocking, and ultimately triumphant, Come Back is the tale of two lives in turnaround. bn.com
Come Back: A Mother and Daughter's Journey Through Hell and Back. Paperback – Aug. 12 2008. In powerful parallel stories, mother and daughter give mesmerizing first-person accounts of the nightmare that shattered their family and the amazing journey they took to find their way back to each other.
Claire Fontaine, Mia Fontaine. HarperCollins, Apr 4, 2006 - Biography & Autobiography - 320 pages. The unflinching true account of a teenage girl's descent into society's underbelly -- and her...
Narrated from both the mother's and daughter's perspective, a compelling memoir describes the life of a teenage runaway; her mother's journey into the dark and sinister underbelly of drugs, pimps, and violence to find and rescue her daughter; and the daughter's struggle back to life in a harsh-but-loving boot camp school in which she overcame se...