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Then There Was No Mountain

Ellen Watterston

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Description for Then There Was No Mountain Hardback. This book describes the external and internal processes the author, Sophie's mother, experiences in coming to terms with her daughter's addiction, then seeking and ultimately finding help. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; VFJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 146 x 23. Weight in Grams: 385.
Sophie was a brilliant child by anyone's definition. Accomplished athlete, 4-H champion, recognized artist, and Western and English horsewoman. By the age of sixteen she had added one more 'achievement' to her resume, this one ignominious: drug addict. Then There Was No Mountain describes the external and internal processes the author, Sophie's mother, experiences in coming to terms with her daughter's addiction, then in seeking and ultimately finding help. Equally important, the author is forthright in examining the role that she, as a single mother, played in perpetuating her daughter's crisis by not coming to terms with her own 'drugs ... Read more

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Format

Hardback

Publication date

2003

Publisher

Taylor Trade Publishing United States

Number of pages

208

Condition

New

Number of Pages

208

Place of Publication

Lanham, United States

ISBN

9781589790469

SKU

V9781589790469

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About Ellen Watterston

Ellen Waterston began her writing career at Harvard University, where as an undergraduate she wrote for the Harvard Crimson and was a stringer for Time Magazine. A recipient of five writing scholarships since 1998, she has contributed essays, short stories, and poems to a variety of journals, magazines, and anthologies. She lives in Bend, Oregon.

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Her book should help others who are blindly navigating their way back to health and normalcy.
Publishers Weekly
[A] More must read.
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Full of honesty, heartbreak, and revelation.
San Jose Mercury News
Only if you have a feel for the written word that is stronger than the heartache you must describe can you ... Read moredeliver a narrative as powerful as Ellen Waterston's.
Oregonian
Waterston's book is a brave undertaking and a gift to us all.
True Story
One of the top 10 Northwest books
Oregonian
An unflinching, honest account of a mother's long struggle to save her troubled daughter. Set against vivid backgrounds of Western and New England landscapes, it is an engrossing story, all the more because many readers will feel a pang of recognition at the hard issues facing contemporary parents, whether they come from tiny, wind-swept ranch towns or affluent east coast cities. . . . A beautiful and compelling book.
Craig Lesley, author of The Sky Fishermen and Storm Riders The author is my sister. This is the main reason I know about this book, but not the main reason I strongly urge you to get it and read it. It is strong medicine. It is written from the heart, with eyes wide open.
Sam Waterston, star of NBC's Law & Order If your mission is to lay bare "the parallel odyssey of a mother and daughter through addiction," unfailing, unblinking honesty is your starting line. But only if you have a feel for the written word that is stronger than the heartache you must describe can you deliver a narrative as powerful as [Waterston's]. . . . But the illuminating force of this book is Waterston's pacing, her subtle detail of life on Oregon's High Desert, her metaphors, and her choreography with the language. Perhaps the compelling frankness of Then There Was No Mountain is possible because after years of sever and troubled darkness, pages of honest emotion seem like steps of light.
Steve Duin, The Oregonian An eloquent, smart, and painful book about the problems every parent faces raising children in America.
Kent Nelson, author, Land That Moves, Land That Stands Still Then There Was No Mountain is a "must read"!
More Magazine, October Issue
Then There Was No Mountain was chosen as one of the northwest's top ten books of 2003 by The Oregonian, December 28, 2003! Then There Was No Mountain is a book about how one person's substance abuse can turn the lives of loved ones upside down and inside out, requiring drastic self-exploration and extreme intervention for the other family members to recover.
Lon Woodbury
Woodbury Reports, Inc
Waterston bravely revisits a painful period of her life . . . her book should help others who are blindly navigating, their way back to health and normalcy.
Publishers Weekly
Good Morning America's Diane Sawyer interviewed Ellen Waterston in January 2004 citing Then There Was No Mountain as a must-read. Show Less

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