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Their best-selling memoir, Come Back, moved and inspired with the story of Mia Fontaine's harrowing drug addiction and her mother, Claire's, desperate and ultimately successful attempts to save her. Now it's a decade later. At 51, Claire's shed her identity as Mia's savior but realizes that, oops, she forgot to plan for life after motherhood; Mia, 25 and eager to step outside her role as recovery's poster child, finds adult life isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Mother and daughter tell their parallel stories in mesmerizing first-person accounts. Claire Fontaine's story is a parent's worst nightmare, a cautionary tale chronicling her daughter Mia's drug-fueled manipulation of everyone around her as she sought refuge in the seedy underworld of criminals and heroin addicts, the painful childhood secrets that led up to it, and the healing that followed.

Pretty Undone is a podcast for faithful women that are seeking sisterhood through the beautiful chaos of a life of faith. Rooted in sisterhood and the realness of unavoidable struggle, disorder, and devotion. The hosts, Mia and Claire, are two overworked and underpaid college girls navigating being a young woman of God in a crazy world and letting themselves be undone through it all.