Description
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.
Author: Paula Becker
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 09/15/2019
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781609386597
ISBN10: 1609386590
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Self-Help | Substance Abuse & Addictions | Drugs
- Family & Relationships | Parenting | Motherhood
Author: Paula Becker
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 09/15/2019
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781609386597
ISBN10: 1609386590
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Self-Help | Substance Abuse & Addictions | Drugs
- Family & Relationships | Parenting | Motherhood
About the Author
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.