Debra Gwartney talks about Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love. This is the story of Gwartney's frantic effort to recover her two daughters.
She captures the harrowing subculture of the American runaway, with its random violence, its horrendously dangerous street drugs, and its patchwork of hidden shelters.
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Debra Gwartney
Debra Gwartney authors the memoir, Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love. She is a professor at Portland State University.
Wow. Intense story. I've read other runaway stories and how it's a painstaking journey for the teenagers and a heart retching period for the mothers. At times, the mothers don't pay enough attention to their teenage daughters and in response, the girls run away but most times, the girls just want to begin their soul searching early and more than not, they come back home after a couple months and figure their way back to their normal lives. You always have to wonder why they ran away in the first place.