Addiction
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TITLE: Water I Won't Touch
AUTHOR: Kayleb Rae Candrilli WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 811 Can SUMMARY: Kayleb Rae Candrilli uses poems to focus on the struggles and dangers of living as a trans person. Written during their healing from a double mastectomy, they tell of their struggles with addiction and family dysfunction, while also sharing struggles of the queer community. |
TITLE: Firekeeper's Daughter
AUTHOR: Angeline Boulley WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Bou - NATIVE COLLECTION SUMMARY: Daunis, who is part Ojibwe, defers attending the University of Michigan to care for her mother and reluctantly becomes involved in the investigation of a series of drug-related deaths. |
TITLE: Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
AUTHOR: Beth Macy WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 362.29 Mac SUMMARY: Chronicles America's more than twenty-year struggle with opioid addiction, from the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, through the spread of addiction in distressed communities in Central Appalachia, to the current national crisis. |
TITLE: Heroine
AUTHOR: Mindy McGinnis WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC McG - NOVELS SUMMARY: When a car crash sidelines Mickey just before softball season, she has to find a way to hold on to her spot as the catcher for a team expected to make a historic tournament run. Behind the plate is the only place she's ever felt comfortable, and the painkillers she's been prescribed can help her get there. The pills do more than take away pain; they make her feel good. With a new circle of friends--fellow injured athletes, others with just time to kill--Mickey finds peaceful acceptance, and people with whom words come easily, even if it is just the pills loosening her tongue. But as the pressure to be Mickey Catalan heightens, her need increases, and it becomes less about pain and more about want, something that could send her spiraling out of control. |
TITLE: Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless GIrls
AUTHOR: T Kira Madden WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Mad SUMMARY: The author shares her life coming of age as a queer, biracial teenager in a city full of prejudice. Explores her journey discovering herself without the help of her drug addicted parents. |
TITLE: Heavy: An American Memoir
AUTHOR: Kiese Laymon WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Lay SUMMARY: Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about the physical manifestations of violence, grief, trauma, and abuse on his own body. He writes of his own eating disorder and gambling addiction as well as similar issues that run throughout his family. Through self-exploration, storytelling, and honest conversation with family and friends, Heavy seeks to bring what has been hidden into the light and to reckon with all of its myriad sources, from the most intimate--a mother-child relationship--to the most universal--a society that has undervalued and abused black bodies for centuries. |
TITLE: Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
AUTHOR: Koren Zailckas WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 616.86 Zai SUMMARY: The author discusses her relationship with alcohol, telling how she began drinking at the age of fourteen and continued drinking for the express purpose of getting drunk, bolstering her courage, or medicating her moods, and sharing the reasons why she decided to give up alcohol nine years later. |
TITLE: Hole in My Life
AUTHOR: Jack Gantos WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Gan SUMMARY: The author relates how, as a young adult, he became a drug user and smuggler, was arrested, did time in prison, and eventually got out and went to college, all the while hoping to become a writer. |
TITLE: Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction
AUTHOR: Jarrett J. Krosoczka WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Kro - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: In graphic novel format author and illustrator Jarrett J. Krosoczka discusses growing up in a family grappling with addiction. |
TITLE: With or Without You
AUTHOR: Domenica Ruta WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: 921 Rut SUMMARY: Presents the memoir of Domenica Ruta and the relationship she had with her drug addict mother. |
TITLE: Sing, Unburied, Sing
AUTHOR: Jesmyn Ward WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC War - NOVELS SUMMARY: Living with his grandparents and sister on a Gulf Coast farm, Jojo navigates the challenges of his mother's addictions and his grandmother's cancer before the release of his father from prison prompts a road trip of danger and hope. |