Beyond Betrayal: Healing My Broken Past - Softcover

Koons, Carolyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060647566 ISBN 13: 9780060647568

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1987

Synopsis

Chronicles the author's traumatic childhood--a story of alcoholism, abuse, and abandonment--and her courageous struggle for survival and the miracles of healing that have freed her from anger and pain

About this title

From the Publisher:

The true story of the author's courageous struggle for survival within her abusive family and the miracle of God's healing that has freed her from overwhelming anger and pain.

From Publishers Weekly:

Koons, whose earlier book, Tony: Our Journey Together, related her fight to adopt a five-year-old Mexican boy falsely imprisoned for murder, here reveals the traumas she suffered during the first three decades of her life. The victim of abusive parentsher mother was a prostitute, her father a violent alcoholicKoons migrated from place to place with her nomadic family. In her teens, virtually abandoned, psychically damaged and without roots, she was befriended by an adult who involved her in a Christian community, through which she achieved the inner healing described in this testament to the power of faith and prayer. Koons is professor of Christian education at a Southern California university. 35,000 ad/promo; author tour.
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About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0060647566
• ISBN 13: 9780060647568
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288