From the moment you open the book, you embark on a journey of emotion involving a picture perfect family. Barbara, the author, within six pages, is immediately thrown into a world she’s never known with someone she never thought her daughter could become. When Annie begins a life of meth use, it sets off a chain of events that leave readers clinging to hope, and yet screaming at the pages for Annie to turn back to what she knows is real.
In Barbara’s real life account of living with a meth addict, she shares her emotional and yet firm, faithful foundation in God as a means through which she learns about, accepts and helps her daughter. When I was reading her story, I felt as if I were alongside Barbara in her car during those late night searches on the street for her daughter. I felt as if I was in her garage with her when she lit a cigarette and prayed for God to help her help her daughter. I felt as if I was in the courtrooms with her as she saw her daughter shackled and distant. And I felt as if I were a friend sharing a cup of coffee when she would share moment-changing revelations during the dark years.
Each moment recorded in this book is a moment of struggle and victory, and the entire journey, worth retelling over and over. For any parent who has walked through the dark room of addiction, who seeks to understand and needs encouragement, this story of healing and hope is necessary. There are also resources and contacts in the back of the book for additional information.
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