Karen Flyer

Loss and Found: a Memoir Karen Flyer

Growing up is extraordinarily difficult for some girls. Some lose a parent at an early age. Some suffer from depression. Some battle anorexia. Some are sexually abused. Some turn to drugs, alcohol, or sexual promiscuity in order to dull their pain. Karen Flyer experienced all of these tragedies during her tumultuous childhood. Loss and Found is a spellbinding account of Karen's life from early childhood through graduate school, detailing her experiences with parental suicide, alcoholism, and sexual abuse and their contributions to her own substance abuse, anorexia, sexual promiscuity, and self-rejection. The novel brings readers along on her journey from a fear of abandonment and constant struggle to prove herself "worthy" of love to a place of realizing her own self-worth and finally finding peace.