<![CDATA[Have You Found Her: A Memoir]]>

false <![CDATA[Have You Found Her: A Memoir]]> 1188288 2 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. A terrific read.” –Cammie McGovern, author of Eye Contact 1176278 12 2 2008 Have You Found Her: A Memoir total:310|5:103|4:115|3:68|2:15|1:9| 310 1218 674 103 1 2 false false Wed Aug 06 05:09:16 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 06 05:30:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sat Jun 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 20 16:58:40 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 10:30:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 1 false false Fri Aug 08 20:58:04 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 08 20:58:04 -0700 2008 ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jun 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 11:10:11 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 13 08:05:23 -0700 2008
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I just finished a book, after running back to the beach because it was mistakenly left there, that I am going to pass on to everyone looking for a good book to read. HAVE YOU FOUND HER by Janice Erlbaum was a gut-wrenching, pull-at-your-...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Apr 08 13:03:48 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 09:28:03 -0700 2008
This highly readable memoir describes a successful graduate of a teen homeless shelter who...more...]]> 3 0 false true Thu Jan 31 17:24:57 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 05 17:19:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 29 18:53:21 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 29 18:53:42 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Wed Sep 10 12:34:37 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 10 12:34:37 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jul 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 09:29:39 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 14 09:47:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1188288