Dimensions
152 x 229 x 27mm
Mia Fontaine’s harrowing drug addiction at the age of 15-and her mother, Claire’s, desperate and ultimately successful attempts to save her-moved and inspired women everywhere in their first memoir, the bestselling Target Bookmarked Pick COME BACK.
Now, a decade later, Claire and Mia are determined to transform their lives and their relationship once again-this time by choice. Each facing a defining moment-Claire, fifty-one, ready to shed her identity as Mia’s savior, and her twenty-five-year-old daughter wishing to grow beyond her role as recovery’s poster child-the two embark on a six-month-long round-the-world adventure. Mission: to consciously bond as friends while also evolving as women.
In an amazing journey that takes them through sixteen cities and twelve countries; amid monkey attacks, camel rides around the pyramids, and terrifying cab trips (a feature found across the globe); Mia comes to know her mother in the same way that Claire has always known her, as all mothers know their daughters: better than anyone else, often better than themselves-something essential in any close friendship between equals. Both women leave with a deepened sense of who they are and where they want to go as they move into a new phase in their lives and, most of all, with a strong and loving bond as two women-who happen to be mother and daughter.
Readers will close this book with a deeper understanding of the mother/daughter relationship-and of themselves-seeing, as they did in COME BACK, new possibilities for their own lives. No reader will walk away from this book unchanged.
