{"product_id":"9780812974577","title":"Have You Found Her: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnd every week, there was the unspoken question, the one I didn’t know enough to ask myself : Have you found her yet? The one who reminds you of you?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwenty years after she lived at a homeless shelter for teens, Janice Erlbaum went back to volunteer. Now thirty-four years old and a successful writer, she’d changed her life for the better; now she wanted to help someone else–someone like the girl she’d once been.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen she met Sam. A brilliant nineteen-year-old junkie savant, the product of a horrifically abusive home, Sam had been surviving alone on the streets since she was twelve and was now struggling for sobriety against the adverse health effects of long-term drug abuse. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoon Janice found herself caring deeply for Sam, following her through detoxes and psych wards, halfway houses and hospitals, becoming ever more manically driven to save her from the sickness and sadness leftover from Sam’s terrible past. But just as Janice was on the verge of becoming the girl’s legal guardian, she made a shocking discovery: Sam was sicker than anyone knew, in ways nobody could have imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with startling candor and immediacy, \u003ci\u003eHave You Found Her\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of one woman’s quest to save a girl’s life–and the hard truths she learns about herself along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A rich and compelling account . . . Ultimately this is a book about the narrator’s journey and the dangers that attend the urge within us all to believe we can save another soul. A terrific read.”\u003cbr\u003e–Cammie McGovern, author of \u003ci\u003eEye Contact \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47020662161648,"sku":"9780812974577","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780812974577_p0.jpg?v=1763744827","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780812974577","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}