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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Janice Morgan formerly taught courses in French language, literature, and cultural history as a college teacher in rural Kentucky. During that career, she wrote about social issues in French cinema, publishing in The French Review, Cinema Journal, and the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. Based on her family’s experiences, she now advocates for better mental health awareness, substance abuse recovery, and criminal justice reform.
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SELECTED TITLES FROM SHE WRITES PRESS
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Blinded by Hope: One Mother’s Journey Through Her Son’s Bipolar Illness and Addiction by Meg McGuire. $16.95, 978-1-63152-125-6. A fiercely candid memoir about one mother’s roller coaster ride through doubt and denial as she attempts to save her son from substance abuse and bipolar illness.
Off the Rails: One Family’s Journey Through Teen Addiction by Susan Burrowes. $16.95, 978-1-63152-467-7. An inspiring story of family love, determination, and the last-resort intervention that helped one troubled young woman find sobriety after a terrifying and harrowing journey.
Saving Bobby: Heroes and Heroin in One Small Community by Renee R. Hodges. $16.95, 978-1631523755. A raw, honest, deeply moving memoir about the difficulties of managing recovery from opioids—the number one killer of American kids age 18–25—told from the perspective of the addict’s aunt, who took him in and dedicated herself to helping her nephew save himself.
Searching for Normal: The Story of a Girl Gone Too Soon by Karen Meadows. $16.95, 978-1-63152-137-9. Karen Meadows intertwines her own story with excerpts from her daughter Sadie’s journals to describes their roller coaster ride through Sadie’s depression and a maze of inadequate mental health treatment and services—one that ended with Sadie’s suicide at age eighteen.
Loving Lindsey: Raising a Daughter with Special Needs by Linda Atwell. $16.95, 978-1631522802. A mother’s memoir about the complicated relationship between herself and her strong-willed daughter, Lindsey—a high-functioning young adult with intellectual disabilities.
Scattering Ashes: A Memoir of Letting Go by Joan Rough. $16.95, 978-1-63152-095-2. A daughter’s chronicle of what happens when she invites her alcoholic and emotionally abusive mother to move in with her in hopes of helping her through the final stages of life—and her dream of mending their tattered relationship fails miserably.