From the creator of the blog "Renegade Mothering," Janelle
Hanchett's forthright, darkly funny, and ultimately empowering
memoir chronicling her tumultuous journey from young motherhood to
abysmal addiction and a recovery she never imagined possible.
Pregnant at 22 by a man she'd known three months, Janelle Hanchett
embraced motherhood with the determined optimism of the recklessly
self-confident. After giving birth, she found herself bored,
directionless, and seeking relief in wine, which she justified as
sophisticated and going well with chicken. But over time, her
questionable drinking habit spiraled into full-blown dependence,
until life became bedtime stories and splitting hangovers, cubicles
and multi-day drug binges--and eventually, an inconceivable
separation from her children. For ten years, Hanchett grappled with
the unyielding progression of addiction, bouncing from rehab to
therapy to the occasional hippie cleansing ritual on her quest for
sobriety, before finding it in a way she never expected. Hers is a
story we rarely hear--of the addict mother not redeemed by her
children; who longs for normalcy but cannot maintain it; and who,
having traveled to seemingly irreversible depths, makes it back,
only to discover she is still an outsider. Like her irreverent,
laugh-out-loud funny, and unflinchingly honest blog, Hanchett's
memoir calls out the rhetoric surrounding "the sanctity of
motherhood" as tired and empty, boldly recounting instead how she
grew to accept an imperfect self within an imperfect life--and
think, "Well, I'll be damned, I'm just happy to be here."
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