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Augusta, Gone: A True Story

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Augusta, Gone: A True Story

"I'm not telling you where I am. Don't try to find me."

Remember Go Ask Alice? Augusta, Gone is the memoir Alice's mother never wrote. A single parent, Martha Tod Dudman is sure she is giving her two children the perfect life, sheltering them from the wild tumult of her own youth. But when her daughter Augusta turns 15, things start to happen: first the cigarette, then the blue pipe, and the little bag Augusta says is aspirin. Just talking to her is like sticking your hand in the garbage disposal. Martha doesn't know if she's confronting adolescent behavior, craziness, her own failures as a parent -- or all three. The story of a girl who is doing everything to hurt herself and a mother who would try anything to save her, Augusta, Gone is a sorrowful tale, but not a tragic one.

Augusta, Gone: A True Story
by Martha Tod Dudman

  • Publication Date: April 2, 2002
  • Paperback: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Harper Perennial
  • ISBN-10: 0060014156
  • ISBN-13: 9780060014155