The unflinching true account of a teenage girl's descent into society's underbelly -- and her mother's desperate and ultimately successful attempts to bring her back.
How does an honor student at one of Los Angeles's finest prep schools -- a bright, beautiful girl from a loving home -- trade school uniforms and afternoons at the beach for shooting up in the back of a van in rural Indiana? How does her devoted mother emerge from the shock of finding that her daughter has not only disappeared but had been living a secret life for more than a year?
Mother and daughter tell their parallel stories in mesmerizing first-person accounts. Claire Fontaine's story is a parent's worst nightmare, a cautionary tale chronicling her daughter Mia's drug-fueled manipulation of everyone around her as she sought refuge in the seedy underworld of criminals and heroin addicts, the painful childhood secrets that led up to it, and the healing that followed. Her search for Mia was brutal for both mother and daughter, a dizzying series of dead ends, incredible coincidences and, at times, miracles. Ultimately, Mia was forced into harsh-but-loving boot camp schools on two continents while Claire entered a painful but life-changing program of her own. Mia's story includes the jarring culture shock of the extreme and controversial behavior modification school she was in for nearly two years, which helped her overcome depression and self-hatred to emerge a powerful young woman with self-esteem and courage. 
An unforgettable story of love and transformation, Come Back is a heart-wrenching and humorous portrayal of the primal bond between mother and daughter that will resonate with women everywhere.

comeback - a mother and daughter's journey through hell and back

Biographies & Memoirs

Fontaine, Claire

Fontaine, Mia

Community & Culture

Harper

How does an honor student at one of Los Angeles's finest prep schools–a nice girl from a happy, loving home–trade school uniforms and afternoons at the mall for speedballs in the back of a truck in rural Indiana? How does her devoted mother emerge from the shock of finding that her daughter has not only disappeared but had been living a secret life for more than a year? 
 Mother and daughter tell their parallel stories in mesmerizing first–person accounts. Claire Fontaine's story is a parent's worst nightmare, a cautionary tale chronicling her daughter Mia's drug–fueled manipulation of everyone around her as she sought refuge in the seedy underworld of felons and heroin addicts, the painful childhood secrets that led up to it, and the healing that followed. Her search for Mia was brutal for both mother and daughter, a dizzying series of dead ends, incredible coincidences and, at times, miracles. Ultimately, Mia was forced into harsh–but–loving boot camp schools on two continents while Claire entered a painful but life–changing program of her own. Mia's story includes the jarring culture shock of the extreme and controversial behavior modification school she was in for nearly two years, which helped her overcome depression and self–hatred to emerge a powerful young woman with self–esteem and courage. 
 Come Back is an unforgettable story of love and transformation that will resonate with mothers and daughters everywhere.

Come Back

HarpPeren

How does an honor student at one of the finest prep schols in Los Angeles - a bright, Beautiful girl from a loving home - end up shooting up in the back of a vaan in rural Indiana? How does her devoted mother overcome the shock of finding out that her daughter has not only disaperaed but had been living a secret life for more than a year? Mother and daughter each tell their story in compelling, provocative first person accounts. Claire chronicles her stuggles with her daughter Mia's manipipulative , drug-fueled behavior, her relentless search for her across three states, and ultimate choice to force her into a boot camp school in eastern europe. Mia details her refuge in the abyss of crimainal and herion addicts and the painful childhood secrets that led up to it. Both describe their their remarkable, if conteroversial, process of healing with unsparing honesty and humor . An unforgettable story of love and transformation, Come Back is a heart- wrenching portrayal of the bond between mother and daughter that will responate with reader everywhere.

Come Back: a Mother and Daughter's Journey Through Hell and Back

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

Regan Books

In powerful parallel stories, mother and daughter give mesmerizing first-person accounts of the nightmare that shattered their family and the amazing journey they took to find their way back to each other. Claire Fontaine's relentless cross-country search for her missing child and ultimate decision to force her into treatment in Eastern Europe is a gripping tale of dead ends, painful revelations, and, at times, miracles. Mia Fontaine describes her refuge in the seedy underworld of felons and addicts as well as the jarring shock of the extreme, if loving, school that enabled her to overcome depression and self-loathing. Both women detail their remarkable process of self-examination and healing with humor and unsparing honesty. Come Back is an unforgettable true story of love and transformation that will resonate with mothers and daughters everywhere.

Come Back: A Mother and Daughter's Journey Through Hell and Back (P.S.)

William Morrow Paperbacks

Have Mother, Will Travel: A Mother and Daughter Discover Themselves, Each Other, and the World

Glamour magazine called Come Back, the first nonfiction collaboration by Claire and Mia Fontaine, the “best mother-daughter memoir,” while the New York Times Book Review praised it as, “a testament to the power of the love.”
The Fontaines are back with Have Mother, Will Travel, a beautiful, thoughtful, insightful, inspiring book that brilliantly captures the changing relationship between a mother and her adult daughter. Seen within the context of an unforgettable round-the-world adventure, the emotional milestones reached and the new understandings and appreciations achieved will warm the heart and nourish the soul—an extraordinary journey that should not be missed by armchair travelers and by mothers and daughters everywhere.

William Morrow

Have Mother, Will Travel: A Mother and Daughter Discover Themselves, Each Other, and the World (P.S.)

Come Back 10th Anniversary Target Book Club Edition

Memoirs

William Morrow & Co.

The first English-language publication of writings by the collective artist Claire Fontaine, addressing our complicity with anything that limits our freedom This anthology presents, in chronological order, all the texts by collective artist Claire Fontaine from 2004 to today. Created in 2004 in Paris by James Thornhill and Fulvia Carnevale, the collective artist Clare Fontaine creates texts that are as as experimental and politically charged as her visual practice. In. these writings, she uses the concept of "human strike" and adopts the radical feminist position that can be found in Tiqqun, a two-issue magazine cofounded by Carnevale. Human strike is a movement that is broader and more radical than any general strike. It addresses our inevitable subjective complicity with everything that limits our freedom and shows how to abandon these self-destructive behaviors through desubjectivization. Human strike, Claire Fontaine writes, is a subjective struggle to separate from the inevitable harm we do to ourselves and others simply by living within postindustrial neoliberalism. Human Strike is the first English-language publication of Claire Fontaine's influential and important theoretical writings.

Human Strike and the Art of Creating Freedom (Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents)

Arts & Photography

Semiotext[e]

In this volume, passionate texts from the last decade by artist and theory collective Claire Fontaine are brought together with an extended concluding essay and foreword. Moving across militant, aesthetic and poetic registers these texts consider what resistance might look like in the age of human capital, where all dimensions of the self are infiltrated and conscripted by capital in its pursuit of value. Their answer is the human strike - a strike against the demands on the self imposed by power - in the interest of 'changing ourselves', becoming who we want to become. This strike has been happening all along, throughout history, but has today reached a peak of political consciousness. This book was commissioned to accompany the Post-Media Lab's 'The Subsumption of Sociality' research theme. Published by Mute Books and Post-Media Lab

The Human Strike Has Already Begun & Other Essays (Post-Media Lab)

Mute

<div>Cette anthologie propose une sélection de textes de l'artiste collective Claire Fontaine, fondée à Paris en 2004. La pratique de l'écriture constitue une partie intégrante de sa recherche, aussi bien visuelle que conceptuelle, autour des questions de la valeur, la liberté, l'économie et le féminisme. Les textes ici réunis ont des registres différents qui vont du théorique au poétique, de la lettre ouverte au manifeste politique. Ils convergent souvent vers l'horizon de ce que l'auteure appelle « la grève humaine », une révolte qui s'oppose à toutes les formes d'exploitation et pas seulement à celles de nature professionnelle. Ce livre d'artiste est le témoignage d'une exploration toujours en cours, une boîte à outils existentielle pour nous sortir du sentiment étouffant de notre impuissance politique.</div>

La Grève humaine: et l’art de créer la liberté (French Edition)

Diaphanes

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