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Through My Second Life , Christiane F. moves past being a "warning shot" for youth and instead presents the grueling reality of a life that was broken down but never completely destroyed.

The book details the lost decade of the 1980s—a period often glossed over in pop culture histories of Christiane. It chronicles her attempts to hold down jobs, to form relationships that weren't transactional, and to reconnect with a mother who she felt had misunderstood her. It is a "Second Life" because, in many ways, her biological life—the one where she grew up normal, went to school, and had a future—was arrested at age 13. The second life is the one she built from the rubble of her twenties and thirties. christiane f my second life book english

My Second Life picks up the thread in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Unlike a conventional autobiography, this book is not a linear sequel. It is a fragmented, raw, and brutally honest confession of a woman who spent nearly 20 years pretending she was "cured"—only to realize that addiction is a chronic illness of the mind. Through My Second Life , Christiane F