Title:
First in the family : a story of survival, recovery, and the American dream / Jessica Hoppe.
ISBN:
9781250865229
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Flatiron Books, 2024.
©2024
Physical Description:
x, 257 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
Dream on -- Location, location, location -- Workhorse -- Shadow self -- Lost in succession -- Humildad -- Traviesa / survival artist -- D(rug) A(buse) R(esistance) E(ducation) -- The rhythm is gonna getcha -- My mother's daughter -- Sick as our secrets -- Thirst trap -- Lightweight -- Dependent -- Red flags, green light -- Unreliable narrator -- Rock bottom -- Intemperance -- The baptist -- Inheritance -- Concepción -- Abandono -- You never have to drink again -- Sinvergüenza -- Land of the free / almost fifty -- Nine days with unborn -- Family disease -- Price of admission -- The AA MFA -- It works if you work it -- Off the ropes -- The tenth tradition -- We need more stories of recovery -- Claiming an identity they taught me to hate -- The myth of the model minority.
Summary:
"A memoir chronicling the author's recovery, deconstructing American exceptionalism and whiteness within powerful institutions such as AA, and reconciling the personal, familial, historical, and political to interrupt cycles of harm"-- Provided by publisher.
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Corporate Subject:
OCLC Number:
on1414164115
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