Loss and Found

About the Book

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.

About the Author

Karen Flyer, M.B.A. and Executive Director of COPE, a grief organization for parents living with the loss of a child, is a survivor of parental suicide, substance and sexual abuse, a life-threatening eating disorder, and low self-esteem. She is the author of the memoir Loss and Found, which details her tumultuous life. Judy Eldredge-Root, M.Ed., CAGS, is a school psychologist and clinical mental health counselor who has worked since 1983 as a therapist, guidance counselor, instructor in an MA/M.Ed. program, and most recently as a school psychologist working with troubled children, adolescents and teens in and out of a school setting.