The Lost Years: Surviving a Mother and Daughter's Worst Nightmare (Record no. 17883)
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| fixed length control field | 01614nam a2200193 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780977761814 |
| 024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER | |
| Standard number or code | 70060351 |
| 050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | HV5805.W36 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 362.29092 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Kristina Wandzilak |
| 245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Lost Years: Surviving a Mother and Daughter's Worst Nightmare |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Jeffers Press |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 280 pages |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | A child caught in the horror of alcohol and drug addition. A mother helplessly standing by unable to save her. The Lost Years is the real life story of just such a mother and child, each giving their first-hand accounts of the years lost to addiction and despair. Kristina, the second of four children, tells how she turns to alcohol for comfort when she is thirteen. She gives a brutally honest description of her descent into addiction, prostitution, burglary and violent rape until her near death on the floor of a homeless shelter completely alone at the age of twenty-one. Adding a heart-wrenching counterpart to the story, Kristina's mother, Connie, tells of her powerlessness to help her addicted daughter, the break-up of her unhappy marriage and how she comes to terms with her own co-dependency. She is also faced with the worst choice a mother has to make, to close the door on Kristina, sending her onto the streets in order to save herself and protect her other children. Then follows the remarkable story of Kristina's recovery as she lives through rehab, her mother's tough love and the years of acclimating herself to living a normal life. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Social Problems |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Memoir |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Constance Curry |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Lake Chapala Society | Lake Chapala Society | 12/28/2023 | MEM 362.2 WAND | 70665 | 07/17/2024 | 1 | 07/17/2024 | Book |