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Don’t miss our Book Gang episode on the Booker of the Month reading challenge. Harding creates a realistic and challenging evolution for her character. At times, Sonya is euphorically happy; at others, she is searing with anger and deep remorse. This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel follows the unforgettable journey of a resilient young boy born in the mountains of southern Appalachia. The «mommy needs wine,» mantra gets challenged in this eye-opening read that Paulson shared on our show.
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Reach out to us via email, phone, or our online contact form, and we’ll guide you through our referral process. Through three sections, he uncovers the motives of three generations of the family, revealing how well-intentioned beginnings turned into greed and manipulation, leading to widespread abuse of the drug. Follow Charlie’s tumultuous journey as a personal assistant to the enigmatic and unpredictable megastar, Kathi Kannon. Set in a town grappling with an opioid epidemic, the story navigates the dark consequences of her actions, compelling readers to examine their own moral compass. Moore portrays the struggles of addiction and the redemptive power of family in this compassionate well-developed mystery. However, as she enters a recovery center as the only Black patient, the story takes unexpected turns, delving into a surprising connection with another person in the program.
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- Michael Pond has treated people with addiction for years as a psychotherapist but finds himself homeless, broke and alone when he succumbs to his own battle with alcohol use disorder.
- Jerry Stahl, a successful screenwriter, shares his harrowing journey through addiction in his memoir, «Permanent Midnight.» Stahl chronicles his descent into heroin addiction and the devastating impact it had on his career and health.
Matt Rowland Hill was born in 1984 in Pontypridd, South Wales, and grew up in Wales and England. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, New Statesman, the Telegraph and other outlets. Early recovery has the quality of vigorous exercise, as though each marijuana addiction repetition of a painful moment… serves to build up emotional muscle.
Alcohol Lied to Me by Craig Beck
She’s an iconic, witty literary voice, an engrossing storyteller, and this book too is a great study in memoir. But Ditlevsen’s single conventional moment also, I think, underlines her originality. The result was a tale whose bracing darkness is ultimately redeemed not by its perfunctorily hopeful ending but by the extraordinary force and beauty of its telling. Second, they contain sections describing the lurid drama and dreadful effects of addiction in unsparing detail.
The Sober Diaries by Clare Pool
Always seek the advice of a physician or qualified health provider with questions regarding a medical condition. I very much related to her always feeling “less than” in normal life, and only becoming confident and alive once she poured alcohol down her throat. You may be familiar with the work of the great Argentinian authors Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar, but how about the country’s crop of contemporary writers? We asked Claudia Piñeiro, author of many bestselling and critically acclaimed books, to introduce us to five unmissable 21st-century Argentinian novels.
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- If I have any faith now, it’s in literature’s ability to help us redeem even life’s darkest realities by bringing them into the light.
- To navigate the lifelong process of recovery, individuals can turn to various resources, including books that offer guidance, support, and inspiration.
- Hari argues that drug addiction is far more environmentally determined than is allowed for and points to Portugal’s successful programs for reintegrating addicts.
- The acclaimed author of Prozac Nation goes from depression to addiction with this equally devastating personal account.
- In this poignant memoir, Mary Karr describes the depths of her alcoholism in gruesome detail, and shares the astonishing story of her recovery.
- Capturing the drama, tension, paranoia and short-term bliss of drug addiction, his book explores how the patterns of addiction can be traced to the past.
I found this book uncomfortable at times and very funny at other times. It is the real deal and Cat is a talented writer, but most of all a survivor. I really liked this book because it focuses a lot on her spiritual crisis and how it related to her alcoholism. She is a Christian, as am I, and I often battled in my head with being a Christian and being an alcoholic. Eventually my faith brought me to my knees and I began my journey of sobriety after having a spiritual experience. 2009’s Lit is the volume that deals with Karr’s alcoholism and desperate search for recovery.
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She drinks to cope with life’s difficulties, like the death of her parents, but it’s only after twenty years of dependency that she sees how the “cure” to her stress and anxiety is the real problem. Burroughs thought he was managing to keep it all together as a suit-wearing, hard-partying Manhattanite until he landed in rehab at the bequest of his employers. With the same wit and candor found in his other popular works, we follow the writer from a rehab reality check back to the bustling city, where he must learn to navigate life on the wagon.
Sarah’s writing is sharp and relatable; a more recent, modern voice in the recovery space. So many of us look at “blacking out” as benign, or normal—an indicator of a “successful” night of drinking. In Blackout, Sarah clearly explains why there’s nothing benign about it and describes what is actually happening to the brain when we reach that point of alcohol-induced amnesia. I love her perspective on drinking as an act of counter-feminism—that in reality it actually dismantles our power, our pride, and our dignity as women, though we intended the opposite.
- Mark Kleiman, a professor of public policy at UCLA School of Public Affairs, talks about the pros and cons of prohibition, arguing that prohibition can work, or at least have benefits, provided it’s done well, which it isn’t currently.
- But it’s easy to resonate with his emotions surrounding addiction, no matter your vice.
- Best-selling memoirist Mary Karr longs for the family and stability that eluded her in childhood.
- «Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man» by Bill Clegg is a powerful memoir that delves into the author’s struggles with addiction and his journey towards recovery.
I mean help, whether in the form of identification, solace or instruction. I said this convention concerned reading more directly than writing, but—since all good writing involves deep sensitivity to the reader’s experience—the two things are ultimately inseparable. For one kind of author, helping the reader is the whole point of writing an addiction memoir; for another, even to consider doing so would be aesthetically fatal. My guess is that most addiction memoirs involve some kind of compromise between the author’s aesthetic and ethical impulses. This ethical dimension (or an aesthetic impurity) is a distinctive aspect of addiction memoir as a literary form.