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1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 41 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Paula Becker. |
| Summary |
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. "Really brilliant. I often feel that addiction lies right outside in this way. This is a remarkable book. And an utterly terrifying one." - Andrew Solomon, author, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity 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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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Becker, Paula (Paula J.)
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Parents of drug addicts -- United States -- Biography.
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Heroin abuse -- United States.
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Mothers -- United States -- Biography.
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Teenage boys -- United States -- Biography.
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Drug addicts -- Family relationships -- United States.
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Mothers and sons -- United States.
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Becker, Paula.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781772561869 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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177256186X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13930004 |
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