A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction - A Memoir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781609386597)

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
ISBN-10: 1609386590
ISBN-13: 9781609386597
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2019
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.40w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2019
Library Journal 08/01/2019 pg. 82
Booklist 08/01/2019 pg. 7