Becker Paula Becker

House on Stilts (eBook, ePUB)

Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A House on Stilts tells the story of one woman's struggle to reclaim wholeness while mothering a son addicted to opioids. Paula Becker's son Hunter was raised in a safe, nurturing home by his writer/historian mom and his physician father. He was a bright, curious child. And yet, addiction found him.More than 2.5 million Americans are addicted to opioids, some half-million of these to heroin. For many of them, their drug addiction leads to lives of demoralization, homelessness, and constant peril. For parents, a child s addiction upends family life, catapulting them onto a path no longer prescribed by Dr. Spock, but by Dante s Inferno. Within this ten-year crucible, Paula is transformed by an excruciating, inescapable truth: the difference between what she can do and what she cannot do.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Iowa Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781609386603
• Artikelnr.: 72472381

Autorenporträt

Paula Becker is the author of Looking for Betty MacDonald: The Egg, The Plague, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, and I, and coauthor of The Future Remembered: The 1962 Seattle World's Fair and Its Legacy. She lives in Seattle, Washington.