LIVE THROUGH THIS: A MOTHER’S MEMOIR OF RUNAWAY DAUGHTERS AND RECLAIMED LOVE
Book ID/图书代码： 02330008B24034
English Summary/英文概要： After Gwartney and her husband-"two people who didn’t belong in a marriage together but who couldn’t manage to find a decent way to split up"-divorce, her two older daughters, barely in their teens, run away. In this bitingly honest memoir, Gwartney, a former correspondent for Newsweek, tells of her daughters’ paths of self-destruction as street children, with intervening stints in various treatment centers (among them, a state group home, the foster child program, a "wilderness-therapy program"). As daughters Amanda and Stephanie move back and forth between their parents’ homes of squabbles and angry rebellion and the street world of self-maiming-socially (dropping out of school), physically (drugs, scabies), emotionally (attempted suicide)-Gwartney builds a life around trying to bring them home again, into which her younger daughters, Mollie and Mary, are inexorably drawn. After a grim and frustrating two years, she is successful. Gwartney’s memoir, however, is not just about the runaways; rather it’s a reflection of her emotional state as months go by not knowing where one or the other daughter is. Her story was originally told in an episode of public radio’s This American Life. While she occasionally overwrites, she offers readers comfort and some hope.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 當作者Gwartney和前夫離婚時，兩人因無法找到結束婚姻的共識，使得處理過程相當 也使得正值的兩個女兒受到嚴重的影響，兩個小孩開始出現叛逆行為，如蹺家、逃學、吸毒甚至自我傷害的舉動。雖然，最後作者最後成功將小孩重新帶回家，不過也經歷了兩年家庭重建的 ，其間她也曾向家扶中求救。此回憶錄不僅作者是面對過去的省思，也表達身為人母對子女無限的愛意。(VL)
Awards/获奖情况：“What makes this book special is . . . its ability to sift through pain and ashes and find not bitterness but not a little humor and, always, love.”---Tom Bissell, author of The Father of All Thing
About the Author/作者介绍： DEBRA GWARTNEY is a former Oregonian newspaper reporter, and worked as a correspondent for Newsweek magazine for ten years. She is on the nonfiction writing faculty at Portland State University. Her 2002 appearance with daughters Stephanie and Amanda on This American Life garnered intense listener response. The mother of four daughters and married to the writer Barry Lopez, Gwartney lives in Eugene, Oregon.
Debra Gwartney曾擔任俄勒岡時報及美國新聞週刊Newsweek的記者，目前則在波特蘭大學教授寫作課程。2002年曾和女兒Stephanie 及Amanda一同上廣播節目This American Life述說此經歷，當時還造成廣大的迴響。目前和作家丈夫Barry Lopez和四個女兒居住在俄勒岡尤金市。
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