Publisher's Synopsis
How does childhood abuse and trauma continue to resonate through one's life? How can one find the road to healing?
These are the difficult questions explored in Lost & Found, the moving debut memoir of author Frank H. McLean. As he grew up in the Greater Toronto Area, Frank was faced with immense challenges: an abusive mother, a missing father, a family that moved frequently, childhood sexual abuse, and strangers continually boarding in his home. Having lived through circumstances he wouldn't wish on anyone, Frank finds himself struggling with crime, homelessness, addiction, and depression while trying to make sense of it all.
But Frank's story is not only one of pain and trauma. It is a story of survival, of striving to find love and connection despite what life has thrown at him. It is his journey of finding strength, healing, and spirituality. It is a story of being found.
Raw and powerful in its honesty and depictions of abuse, addiction, and recovery, Lost & Found will engross and inspire older teen and adult readers, and serves as a reminder to everyone that despite the hardship one may face, hope can still be found in spirituality and the will to keep getting up after we fall.
