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This Ragged Grace - A Memoir of Recovery and Renewal (Hardcover, Main)
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This Ragged Grace - A Memoir of Recovery and Renewal (Hardcover, Main)
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Loot Price R386
Discovery Miles 3 860
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I kept putting myself in danger, and I couldn't make it stop. It
rarely felt like a choice, though, of course, in some ways it was.
It's only the death drive, my dear, Freud would likely tell me, if
I lay my body down on his carpet-covered couch. Everybody needs a
little oblivion. Besides, what is the fantasy of the knight on a
white charger if not an abandonment wish? A desire to be rescued
from your own life by a story. But if addiction is rooted in the
will to forget, recovery is an act of remembering - a slow
reconnection with the parts of yourself that slipped out of reach
while you hungered for escape. This Ragged Grace tells the story of
Octavia's journey through recovery from alcohol addiction, and the
parallel story of her father's descent into Alzheimer's. Looking
back over this time, each of the seven chapters explores the
feelings and experiences of the corresponding year of her recovery,
tracing the shift in emotion and understanding that comes with the
deepening connection to this new way of life. Over the course of
this seven-year period, life continues to unfold. Paths are
abandoned, people fall ill, waters get choppy, seemingly impossible
things are navigated without the old fixes. As Octavia moves
between London, the island of Stromboli, New York, Cornwall and
Margate, each place offers something new but ultimately always
delivers the same message: that wherever you go, you take yourself
with you.
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