{"product_id":"hold-me-close-let-me-go-a-mother-a-daughter-and-an-adolescence-survived-paperback","title":"Hold Me Close, Let Me Go: A Mother, a Daughter and an Adolescence Survived - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdair Lara\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does a mother do when her teenaged daughter is spinning out of control and nothing is bringing her back? Here is a searingly honest memoir of motherhood and a testament to the power of love and family. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Adair Lara's daughter Morgan turned thirteen, she was transformed, seemingly overnight, from a sweet, loving child into an angry, secretive teenager who would neither listen nor be disciplined. The author, her youngest son, Patrick, her ex-husband, Jim, and her new husband, Bill, all stepped on a five-year roller-coaster ride in which Morgan incarnated the chaos principle in torn jeans and dyed hair. Drinking, drugging, disappearing, suspicious companions, failing and cheating at school, joy riding in a stolen car-there was no variety of adolescent acting out that she didn't indulge in. For Adair Lara it became an endless sojourn at the end of her rope, a trial immensely complicated by the reappearance in her life of her aging father, a man who had abandoned his wife and seven children decades earlier. Inevitably, Morgan's misbehavior revives memories of her own headstrong adolescence, while her father's presence makes agonizingly real for her the consequences of giving up. Paradoxically, he also becomes the source of her best advice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHold Me Close, Let Me Go \u003c\/i\u003eis an emotionally charged, often brutally honest memoir that all parents (and anyone who was ever a teenager) will experience shocks of recognition from while reading. It imparts invaluable lessons about holding loved ones close through the roughest passages and about the power of family to overcome the most grievous obstacles. Adair Lara is a clear-eyed and eloquent witness to the complex costs and rewards of motherhood, and her book will redefine for readers their idea of what being \"a good enough mother\" really means.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does a mother do when her teenaged daughter is spinning out of control and nothing is bringing her back? Here is a searingly honest memoir of motherhood and a testament to the power of love and family. \u003cbr\u003eWhen Adair Lara's daughter Morgan turned thirteen, she was transformed, seemingly overnight, from a sweet, loving child into an angry, secretive teenager who would neither listen nor be disciplined. The author, her youngest son, Patrick, her ex-husband, Jim, and her new husband, Bill, all stepped on a five-year roller-coaster ride in which Morgan incarnated the chaos principle in torn jeans and dyed hair. Drinking, drugging, disappearing, suspicious companions, failing and cheating at school, joy riding in a stolen car-there was no variety of adolescent acting out that she didn't indulge in. For Adair Lara it became an endless sojourn at the end of her rope, a trial immensely complicated by the reappearance in her life of her aging father, a man who had abandoned his wife and seven children decades earlier. Inevitably, Morgan's misbehavior revives memories of her own headstrong adolescence, while her father's presence makes agonizingly real for her the consequences of giving up. Paradoxically, he also becomes the source of her best advice. \u003cbr\u003e\"Hold Me Close, Let Me Go is an emotionally charged, often brutally honest memoir that all parents (and anyone who was ever a teenager) will experience shocks of recognition from while reading. It imparts invaluable lessons about holding loved ones close through the roughest passages and about the power of family to overcome the most grievous obstacles. Adair Lara is a clear-eyed and eloquent witness to the complex costs and rewards ofmotherhood, and her book will redefine for readers their idea of what being \"a good enough mother\" really means.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eADAIR LARA \u003c\/b\u003eis an award-winning newspaper columnist whose column appears twice weekly in the \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the author of five books, including \u003ci\u003eWelcome to Earth, Mom; Slowing Down in a Speeded-Up World;\u003c\/i\u003eand her latest, \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Best of Adair Lara.\u003c\/i\u003e Her articles and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eRedbook\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLadies' Home Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eParenting\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGood Housekeeping, Reader's Digest \u003c\/i\u003eand other national publications. She lives in San Francisco; her daughter Morgan has just graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 8.36 x 5.54 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 12, 2002\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48807697940728,"sku":"9780767905084","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/l-vX7Stivy9780767905084.webp?v=1780530622","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/hold-me-close-let-me-go-a-mother-a-daughter-and-an-adolescence-survived-paperback","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}