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Author:	Martha Tod Dudman
Subcategory:	Specific Groups
Language:	English
Publisher:	Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (April 2, 2002)
Pages:	256 pages
Category:	Biographies
Rating:	4.1
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Martha Tod Dudman served as President and General manager of Dudman Communications, a group of radio stations, from 1990 to 1999.

Martha Tod Dudman served as President and General manager of Dudman Communications, a group of radio stations, from 1990 to 1999. Now a professional fundraiser, she lives in Northeast Harbor, Maine, with her son and daughter.

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Augusta, Gone: A True Story. by Martha Tod Dudman. A single parent, Martha Tod Dudman is sure she is giving her two children the perfect life, sheltering them from the wild tumult of her own youth. But when Augusta turns fifteen, things start to happen: first the cigarette, then the blue pipe and the little bag Augusta says is aspirin. Just talking to her is like sticking your hand in the garbage disposal. Martha doesn't know if she's confronting adolescent behavior, craziness, her own failures as a parent - or all three.

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Augusta, Gone is the story of a girl who is doing everything to hurt herself and a mother who would try anything to save her. It is a sorrowful tale, but not a tragic one. Though the book charts a harrowing course through the troubled waters of adolescence, hope - that mother and daughter will be reunited and will learn to love one another again - steers them toward a s. Genre: Иностранная литература. Publisher: Gardners Books. I'm not telling you where I am. Don't try to find m. Remember Go Ask Alice?

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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.

Comments:

Ohatollia

Some kids will not do well in traditional schools, and teachers will tell you "not every child can be taught." At least, at my daughter's school, this is what teachers said to me when my child starting acting like Augusta. They couldn't be bothered--they just wanted the trouble out of their school. School is not dumb. Education is always desirable. And some teachers should not be teachers.

I don't understand why some people have to criticize others who are trying to deal with a problem. If you have never lived with a "wild" teen, you need to keep the "should and aught to" comments to yourself because you have no clue what it feels like to have every moment of your life be a fight. Go back and reread why Martha agreed with Augusta that school is dumb. I understand why she said it--she was trying anything she could to keep her child safe at home and off the streets.

What you should take from this book is that sometimes everything is chaos...everything is a fight. "Pick your battles," I was told. How, do you pick when everything is a battle from homework to clothes to friends to food to tv and music. Go brush your teeth is a battle. Chaos and anxiety is a constant companion if your child is there. And when she is gone, the chaos is still there because she is all you can think about.

Reading this book was like reliving my own nightmare.

Runeterror

As a mother of a teenager, I am amazed that anyone can judge another person's ability to parent! In the courageous tale of her journey into teenage hell, Martha bares her innermost soul. She shares with us a look into the heart of a mother who suspects she has somehow failed her daughter and will do anything to get her precious child back. But how does one do that? I defy anyone to answer this question in a definitive way. She makes no apologies for her behavior or the behavior of her daughter - it is what it is. And therein lies the exquisite beauty of this book. What parent of a teenager hasn't felt the dumbfounded fury at the secretive/suspicious/quarrelsome/flippant attitude of their 12 - 15 year old child? Martha manages to put into words that which defies description. All the feelings of frustration, anger, insecurity, self-blame, helplessness the average parent feels when trying to deal with this difficult time of life. This book was not meant to be an example of parenthood, but simply one woman's experience. In so doing, she manages to convey the spectrum of the experience, including and most importantly, hope.
I truly loved this book. I loved it for its honesty, for its emotion, for its message that those of us who are experiencing a teenager's angst and confusion are not alone. I loved it for its tremendous courage. I'm not sure I would have had the guts to send my child away as Martha did. But I'm convinced that had she not, the ending would have been different. Martha Tod Dudman was not a bad parent. She was (and is) a human parent. Aren't we all?

GoodBuyMyFriends

This is is a magnificient book, superbly written, that will be a help to many parents. It seemed strange that the only anti-depressant medications mentioned are ones being used illicitly by the kids in the local school. I'm not saying that they would have worked, but usually after several suicide attempts the question of Prozac arises. When someone says "I don't feel good" but "Nursie says I'm not sick" then clinical depression might be a possibility. It is so compulsively readable that I finished it rapidly so perhaps I missed something. It is mentioned that Augusta is fearful of being treated with drugs at Forest Ridge.

JoJoshura

Great

DrayLOVE

Author is a fine writer but is not completely true with self. She seems to just arrive at this "place" where both her teens have become "screwed up by the system." She has a non realistic view of teachers and a profound biased opinion of them. This is unfair and unfortunate for her and her children. As a caring teacher who has worked with many non traditional and "difficult" students I found this left a negative impression on me. It is always a "why me" attitude that also bothered me through out this book.

Via

I love this book it's one of my fav

Nalmergas

This is the book that goes well with the movie that Lifetime made about the great story of Augusta, Gone. I love the movie and it's my favorite Lifetime one but I can't seem to find it anywhere on DVD for the life of me so I decided to get the book. It's a great book and explains the story well.

Amazing and emotional story about the love and anger between a mother and daughter
Beautiful and well written! Definitely recommend

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