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Author Danler, Stephanie, author.

Title Stray : a memoir / Stephanie Danler.

Publication Info. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.
©2020

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Biographies  92 BIOGRAPHY DANLER    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  BIOG. DANLER, S.    Storage
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  B DANLER    Check Shelf
 Cromwell-Belden Public Library - Adult Department  B DANLER S.    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  B DANLER, STEPHANIE    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  B DANLER    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  B DANLER    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Biographies  BIOG DANLER, STEPHANIE    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  B DANLER    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Biographies  B DANLER STEPHANIE D    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 239 pages : map ; 22 cm
Children lcsh
Summary "From the author of the best-selling Sweetbitter comes an intimate, searingly honest memoir of growing up the child of addicts, of how that turbulent, often harrowing experience has affected her at every stage of her life, and of how she has struggled to transcend this unwanted legacy. When Sweetbitter was published to great success, the author knew she should be happy, but she felt incapable of it, emotionally shut down. She knew too that the roots of her inability to feel were deep in her childhood. With some hope of finally facing down her past--of looking clearly at her parents and what she did and did not inherit from them--she returned to California after a decade away, a decade in which she'd honed the practice of apathy. Stray is an account of that remarkable emotional journey. We meet her mother: a depressed alcoholic, now mentally and physically handicapped by a tragic brain aneurysm and living in squalor; and her father: once a successful businessman, now a constantly relapsing crystal meth addict living in halfway homes and shelters. And we are with the author as she remembers and relives the most difficult events of the ten years since she left "home"--betrayals and infidelities, her own problems with drinking, an affair with a married man whose darkness mirrored her own--and as she discovers the bounds of forgiveness, of her parents, but especially of herself."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Danler, Stephanie.
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Children of alcoholics -- California -- Biography.
Children of drug addicts -- California -- Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Dysfunctional Families.
Authors, American. (OCoLC)fst00821764
Children of alcoholics. (OCoLC)fst00855292
Children of drug addicts. (OCoLC)fst01430026
California. (OCoLC)fst01204928
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Autobiographies.
Other Form: Online version: Danler, Stephanie. Stray. First edition New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020 9781101875971 (DLC) 2019055035
ISBN 9781101875964 (hardcover)
1101875968 (hardcover)
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