About Natalie: A Daughter`s Addiction. a Mother`s Love. Finding Their Way Back to Each Other., Naman Christine Pisera

A mothers first, most basic instinct is to protect her child. Christine Namans daughter Natalie was the light of her life. She was a spirited child with sparkling eyes who was growing up and finding her way in the world. But by adolescence, she had ended up on the wrong road, meeting the wrong kind of people. Natalie was a full-blown addict, caught in a self-destructive spiral that was destroying her life and taking her family along for the nightmarish journey. Christine wondered how she could have missed the warning signs. Was there anything she could do to save Natalie from herself?

About Natalie tells one womans heartbreaking story, one that is played out in homes across the country, and reveals the rollercoaster of emotions that loving an addict unearths. There is despair and joy; denial and acceptance; rage and tranquility. Christines reflections as she traces her daughters life are interspersed with Natalies compelling poems that tell the unvarnished truth of her side of this struggle: I have handcuffs on/And no one can see them/My screams are so loud /Yet no one can hear em.