comeback.

The book I choose to blog about for post #1 is a memoire called comeback by mother and daughter, Claire Fontaine and Mia Fontaine. The main topic of this book is Mia's years of adolessence. She went through many stages, most of which were not normal. Many would say she was an out of control child who needed to go to rehab, and that she was not a good influence. I thought the book was quite interesting because the reader got to read and understand the mother's view and the daughter's view of many different situations. For example, one would first read about how Mia's life was difficult, and she went into a depression; which resulted in Mia's decision to do drugs. Secondly, Claire's reaction was given when she discovered her daughter's secret life which involved dark shady meetings with drug dealers in alleys. When she realized the extent of her daughter's issues, I couldn't imagine how hard it was for Claire to take in and process. I found many ways I could relate myself to Mia throughout the book, and I thought it was extremely interesting to compare our two very different ways of coping with different dilemmas that arise. Her way of coping resulted in Claire eventually forcing her little girl into a boot camp school in eastern europe to try to fix her daughter. One of my favorite parts of the book is when Mia describes her temporary new life in europe, living with heroin addicts and criminals. The entire time I couldn't stop thinking to myself what a scary situation that would be and how a person could do that to their own blood. Despite the fact I knew Claire was only trying to help her daughter and get her back on track, I disagree with that decision and feel there were other ways of fixing the problems without throwing Mia into those living circumstances. Overall, I highly reccomend this book and found it to be an easy read with many twists and turns which motivate a person to keep reading.