Cover of Augusta, Gone: A True Story

Augusta, Gone: A True Story

The story of a girl who is doing everything to hurt herself and a mother who would try anything to try to save her.

True, she had stopped coming down for breakfast. Stayed up in her room, ran out the door late for school, missed the bus and had to have a ride. But you think, well, that's how they are, aren't they, teenagers? And you try to remember how you were, but you were different and the times were different and it was so long ago. And she's suddenly so angry at you, but then, another time, she's just the same. She's just your little girl. You sit with her and you talk about something, or you go shopping for school clothes and everything seems all right. And you forget how you stood in her room and how the center of your stomach felt so cold. When you found the cigarette. When you found the blue pipe. When you found the little bag she said was aspirin.

Subject
biography
Themes
addiction
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 256 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked Augusta, Gone: A True Story? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Augusta, Gone: A True Story. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Lord Fear: A Memoir Shares memoir, nonfiction, addiction
  2. Borderlines: A Memoir Shares memoir, nonfiction, biography
  3. Comeback: A Mother and Daughter's Journey Through Hell and Back Shares memoir, nonfiction, addiction
  4. Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood Shares memoir, nonfiction, addiction

“People who read Augusta, Gone: A True Story tend to reach for these next.”

  1. How to Cook Your Daughter: A Memoir
  2. Chasing Grace: Reflections of a Catholic Girl, Grown Up
  3. Balsamic Dreams: A Short But Self-Important History of the Baby Boomer Generation
  4. It's So Much Work to Be Your Friend: Helping the Child with Learning Disabilities Find Social Success

“If you want more of the same (biography about addiction), start with these.”

  1. Needle
  2. Thin Wire: A Mother's Journey Through Her Daughter's Heroin Addiction
  3. Men-ipulation
  4. Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

“If it was the memoir that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Lit
  2. Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir
  3. Dry
  4. Lies My Mother Never Told Me: A Memoir

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. If A Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks
  2. Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories
  3. Sometimes My Mommy Gets Angry
  4. Fill Her Up