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Deborah Spungen’s memoir offers a raw, personal account of a mother grappling with her daughter’s escalating mental health problems, substance abuse, and the fallout from Nancy Spungen’s stabbing death at New York’s Chelsea Hotel. The narrative recounts the pain and chaos that followed, revealing the deep fissures within a family striving to cope with dysfunction and loss.
First publish date: 1983
Genre: Memoir/Family Memoir
Authors: Deborah Spungen
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