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For fans of Stephanie Thornton-Plymale's American Daughter and Cea Sunrise Person's North of Normal comes Leslie Johansen Nack's emotional follow-up memoir about her battle with addiction following a traumatic childhood—and her inspiring journey toward healing and happiness.

In the mid-1970s, after sailing to French Polynesia with her sisters and father,…

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Nineteen: A Daughter’s Memoir of Reckoning and Recovery, by Leslie Johansen Nack begins not long after the end of her previous memoir Fourteen, still in Southern California, where we’re thrown into a truly dysfunctional situation, with her mentally-ill mom back in the mix part-time and her ambitious dad wrangling everyone into working for him, sometimes to an abusive degree. Leslie’s life keeps her unrooted and unsure of herself, and she finds solace in men’s adoration of her beautiful face and body. The security and love she is desperately looking for eludes her and, perhaps predictably, the men turn her on…

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