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Saving the Lost Girl: A Memoir of Healing

by Kelly Jean Torres

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A memoir about confronting the past to pursue healing

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A memoir about confronting the past to pursue healing

Kelly Jean Torres recounts a childhood shaped by her parents’ addiction and mental illness, early foster care, and an adoption that brought her and her sisters to rural Michigan. The memoir follows the escalating harm she experienced in her adoptive home, her escape at sixteen, and the lasting presence of trauma after she left. Framed around the difficult work of facing what she had tried to outrun, the book connects survival with the search for peace and a more fulfilling life. Its central concerns are childhood instability, abuse, resilience, and healing on one’s own terms.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in personal memoirs of survival and recovery
  • Those seeking accounts of foster care, adoption, and family trauma
  • Adults interested in narratives about confronting childhood trauma

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Childhood traumaFoster care and adoptionAbuseSurvivalHealing

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Book overview

Born to parents who could not escape their battles with addiction and mental illness, Kelly entered foster care before her first birthday. At ten, Kelly and her two sisters were adopted by the Atwoods, who moved them from the busy suburbs of Chicago to a remote Michigan town, where Kelly found herself trapped in an abusive home. After the death of their adoptive mother, a darker side of their adoptive father emerged, and at sixteen, Kelly made a desperate escape.She thought freedom meant she could leave her traumatic past behind her, but every misstep forward was haunted by an undeniable truth: the pain from her childhood was everywhere, in everything, and threatened to destroy her chances at the life she'd always longed for- unless she turned around to face it.

 

Saving the Lost Girl is Kelly's testament to healing, courage, and the belief that a life of peace and fulfillment is within reach, no matter how your story began.

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