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092    BIO|bANDERSEN 
100 1  Andersen, Rose,|eauthor. 
245 14 The heart and other monsters :|ba memior /|cRose Andersen.
264  1 New York :|bBloomsbury Publishing,|c2020. 
300    212 pages :|billustrations ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    "A riveting, deeply personal exploration of the opioid 
       crisis-an empathic memoir infused with hints of true 
       crime. In November 2013, Rose Andersen's younger sister 
       Sarah died of an overdose in the bathroom of her 
       boyfriend's home in a small town with one of the highest 
       rates of opioid use in the state. Like too many of her 
       generation, she had become addicted to heroin. Sarah was 
       24 years old. To imagine her way into Sarah's life and her
       choices, Rose revisits their volatile childhood, marked by
       their stepfather's omnipresent rage. As the dysfunction 
       comes into focus, so does a broader picture of the opioid 
       crisis and the drug rehabilitation industry in small towns
       across America. And when Rose learns from the coroner that
       Sarah's cause of death was a methamphetamine overdose, the
       story takes a wildly unexpected turn. As Andersen sifts 
       through her sister's last days, we come to recognize the 
       contours of grief and its aftermath: the psychic 
       shattering which can turn to anger, the pursuit of ever an
       ever-elusive verdict, and the intensely personal rites of 
       imagination and art needed to actually move on. 
       Reminiscent of Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich's The Fact of 
       a Body, Maggie Nelson's Jane: A Murder, and Lacy M. 
       Johnson's The Other Side, Andersen's debut is a potent, 
       profoundly original journey into and out of loss"--
       |cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Andersen, Rose. 
650  0 Drug addicts|xFamily relationships|zUnited States. 
650  0 Heroin abuse|zUnited States. 
650  0 Sisters|zUnited States.