First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781250865229)

An unflinching and intimate memoir of recovery by Jessica Hoppe, Latinx writer, advocate, and creator of NuevaYorka.

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024: Today, LupitaReads, Electric Literature, Esquire

In this deeply moving and lyrical memoir, Hoppe shares an intimate, courageous account of what it means to truly interrupt cycles of harm. For readers of The Recovering by Leslie Jamison, Somebody's Daughter by Ashley C. Ford, and Heavy by Kiese Laymon.

During the first year of quarantine, drug overdoses spiked, the highest ever recorded. And Hoppe's cousin was one of them. "I never learned the true history of substance use disorder in my family," Hoppe writes. "People just disappeared." At the time of her cousin's death, she'd been in recovery for nearly four years, but she hadn't told anyone.

In First in the Family, Hoppe shares her journey, the first in her family to do so, and takes the reader on a remarkable investigation of her family's history, the American Dream, and the erasure of BIPOC from recovery institutions and narratives, leaving the reader with an urgent message of hope.

Author: Jessica Hoppe
ISBN-10: 1250865220
ISBN-13: 9781250865229
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Language: English
Published: 09/10/2024
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.12w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/01/2024 pg. 15