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Risking the Rapids (Paperback)
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Risking the Rapids (Paperback)
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List price R504
Loot Price R474
Discovery Miles 4 740
You Save R30 (6%)
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#1 New Release in Alcoholism and Christian Self-Help Memoir and
Portrait of a Family at Its Worst and BestSome memoirs shock. Some
entertain. Some take us places we're afraid to go. A rare few move
us. Once in a blue moon, a book does it all. This is Risking the
Rapids. Dysfunctional family. Risking the Rapids opens with the
shocking death of O'Garden's older brother, which prompts her and
other relatives to seek closure on a journey through the remotest
spot in Montana. Described genially as a river "float", a harrowing
journey unfolds. This wilderness trip is contrasted with O'Garden's
account of growing up with her six siblings in a clashing Catholic
family. Alcoholic father, mean mother, Catholic guilt. WCCO-TV
personality Don O'Brien was well-known in the Twin Cities and in
Minnesota. Whether forecasting weather and trading wisecracks with
the anchor on the nightly news, pitching for sponsors, or hosting a
Saturday night movie, he was a man people trusted. In private, Don
O'Brien's family life was a far cry from what his fans saw on TV.
Little by little we see the corrosion: nightly martinis shared with
his wife Betty, an undemonstrative and icy-hearted mother. The
neglect. The poisoning of self-esteem. The rigidity demanded by the
Catholic church. Competition. Cruelty. All packed into ordinary
days and nights as a sensitive girl comes of age. Anxiety and
danger. The children vary in their response to the profound anxiety
sown in the offspring of alcoholics. One brother bites his fingers
to gangrene. One relentlessly bullies the author, who begins
overeating compulsively. One severs all ties with the family.
Danger mounts as well on the Montana raft trip, when unusual river
conditions swell and speed the waters. Both stories build with
escalating intensity to excruciating climaxes. If you read and
liked books such as The Liars' Club, The Wounded Heart, Coming
Clean, Change Me into Zeus's Daughter, or Remember Me As Loving
You, you will want to read Risking the Rapids.
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