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Villard
February 2008
On Sale: February 12, 2008
368 pages
ISBN: 0812974573
EAN: 9780812974577
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Non-Fiction Memoir
And every week, there was the unspoken question, the one
I didn’t know enough to ask myself : Have you found her yet?
The one who reminds you of you?
Twenty years
after she lived at a homeless shelter for teens, Janice
Erlbaum went back to volunteer. Now thirty-four years old
and a successful writer, she’d changed her life for the
better; now she wanted to help someone else–someone like the
girl she’d once been.
Then she met Sam. A brilliant
nineteen-year-old junkie savant, the product of a
horrifically abusive home, Sam had been surviving alone on
the streets since she was twelve and was now struggling for
sobriety against the adverse health effects of long-term
drug abuse.
Soon Janice found herself caring deeply
for Sam, following her through detoxes and psych wards,
halfway houses and hospitals, becoming ever more manically
driven to save her from the sickness and sadness leftover
from Sam’s terrible past. But just as Janice was on the
verge of becoming the girl’s legal guardian, she made a
shocking discovery: Sam was sicker than anyone knew, in ways
nobody could have imagined.
Written with startling
candor and immediacy, Have You Found Her is the story
of one woman’s quest to save a girl’s life–and the hard
truths she learns about herself along the way.
“A
rich and compelling account . . . Ultimately this is a book
about the narrator’s journey and the dangers that attend the
urge within us all to believe we can save another soul.
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