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A mother, a girl, and a life-changing excursion round the world.... Their best-selling memoir, Come Back, changed and encouraged with the storyline of Mia Fontaine's harrowing medication craving and her mother, Claire's, eager and in the end successful attempts to save lots of her. Now it's ten years later and Claire and Mia each face a defining point in time in her life, and a mother-daughter relationship that has frayed round the edges. At 51, Claire's shed her individuality as Mia's savior but realizes that, oops, she forgot to arrange for life after motherhood; Mia, 25 and wanting to step outside her role as recovery's poster child, locates adult life isn't all it's damaged up to be. Established to transform themselves and their relationship once again, the pair sets off on the five-month around-the-world excursion. What awaits them can be an extraordinary, often entertaining journey through 20 towns and 12 countries - the one which includes mishaps, mayhem, and sudden joys, from a passport-eating elephant to a calamitous camel trip round the Pyramids - and finally making peace with their tumultuous former in the lavender areas of France, their current address for the last four months of the trip. Seeing how self-possessed and community-minded twentysomethings are in other countries broadens Mia's perspective, helping her grow, and grow up. Claire uses the trip to examine her busted relationship with her own mother, a Holocaust survivor, and to create a eye-sight for her second act. Seeing her mom evaluate half a hundred years of life, Mia comes to know her as Claire has always known Mia - as all moms know their daughters - much better than anyone else, and frequently much better than themselves. Wiser for what they've learned from ladies in other cultures, and from each other, they give back with a deepened sense of who they are and where they want to go - and with each embracing the mature camaraderie they've found out and the profound love they talk about. Alternating between Claire and Mia's convincing and unique voices, Have Mom, Will Travel is a testament to the energy and beauty of the mother-daughter relationship, the one which illuminates options for our very own lives.

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