Holding : a memoir about mothers, drugs, and other comforts / Karleigh Frisbie Brogan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brogan, Karleigh Frisbie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brogan, Karleigh Frisbie.

Brogan, Karleigh Frisbie--Family.

Drug addicts--United States--Biography.

Drug addicts.

Drug addiction--United States.

Drug addiction.

Mothers and daughters--United States--Biography.

Mothers and daughters.

Women authors, American--Biography.

Women authors, American.

Women drug addicts--United States--Biography.

Women drug addicts.

Parent and adult child.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

284 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Memoir about mothers, drugs, and other comforts

Place of Publication:

Lebanon, New Hampshire : Steerforth Press, [2025]

Summary:

"At age 20, Karleigh Brogan and her boyfriend, Dale, moved into his parents' home. The young couple hid their heroin addiction and promised they would only be there temporarily. What started as a two-week stopgap became two years of habitation. Karleigh and Dale's mother, Glorianne, developed a complex relationship that was both toxic and tender. Glorianne became a stand-in for Karleigh's mother, whose affection and trust Karleigh had always longed for. Simultaneously, Glorianne, an adoptee, searched for the birth mother she never knew. In Holding, Karleigh Brogan brings the reader into her life before, during, and after her time with Dale and his parents, following the road that led from her endless lies to her family and herself, along the long, crooked, path to breaking the chains of her addiction so she could dream again of achieving the life--and the relationship with her own mother--she longed for."--Publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-279).

ISBN:

9781586424121

1586424122

OCLC:

1535870636