The Moon Is Broken: A Mother's True Story

by Eleanor Craig

Book Overview

Recounts a therapist mother's harrowing struggle to save her own daughter--once an honors student at an Ivy League university--from the destruction of anorexia, drug addiction and, finally, AIDS. By... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0525934014
• ISBN13: 9780525934011
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Dutton
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 1.0" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

heart breaker

good book. i recomend it for people who are involved with special circumstance people. things like this really do happen and i feel the more you know about people like this the more you learn to cope with them and help them to survive in this world.

Touching, Well Written

Some books touch us in ways that remain with us for many days of our lives. This book is one of them. When I finished the book I just closed it and said, "Wow" - it was such intense reading. I feel I know Eleanor Craig and her family. Be prepared to shed some tears -- at least I did. However this book is great and shows readers how drug abuse not only affects the user, but greatly hurts friends and families and how everyone feels so helpless. I have great respect for Ms. Craig and how she had the courage and strength to document the loss of her own daughter. I have loved and thoroughly enjoyed all of her books; I wish there were more. I thoroughly recommend also authors: Torey Hayden and Mary MacCracken. I have read all of their books.

Devastatingly sad

I read this book when I was young and impressionable, and it certainly made a tremendous impression on me. The Moon is Broken is dark, full of despair, the story of a woman and her daughter split apart by things deeper than any relationship can withstand. A story of pain.I give it five stars because I still remember to this day the feeling of loss I had after reading it. The power behind this book is dark, overwhelmingly sad, wrenching ... but it is still power.