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Come Back: A Mother and Daughter's Journey Through Hell and Back (P.S.) Paperback – August 12, 2008. by Claire Fontaine (Author), Mia Fontaine (Author) 4.4 361 ratings. See all formats and editions. In powerful parallel stories, mother and daughter give mesmerizing first-person accounts of the nightmare that shattered their family and the ...
This book is written by a mother and daughter, Claire and Mia respectively, who survived the sexual abuse that the father imposed on his daughter and that began when she was only three years old. The book depicts how this conduct almost leads Mia to destroy herself and how she finds a way to save herself from this self-destruction.
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 felons and heroin addicts, the painful childhood secrets that led up to it, and the healing that followed.
The prose is very vivid and bleak as the book tells of Mia’s drug use, self-mutilation, and sexual abuse from her biological father. Interspersed between the mother, Claire’s, vibrant narrative are daughter Mia’s diary entries, which give you a look into how desperate things had become for her.
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's relentless cross-country search for her missing child and ultimate decision to force her into treatment in Eastern Europe ...
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.
Mia will be locked up. She is broken now. Thin, pink scars beribbon her thighs and stomach, her ankles are bruised by a felon’s leg shackles, her wrists by handcuffs. She is medically malnourished and made up like a whore. Inside, she is dark and damaged and gone.
