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| Title Statement | Holding: a memoir about mothers, drugs, and other comforts / Karleigh Frisbie Brogan. |
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| Author | Brogan, Karleigh Frisbie |
| Publication | Lebanon, New Hampshire: Steerforth Press,[2025]©2025 |
| Extent of Item | 284 pages ; |
| ISBN | 9781586424121 (trade paperback) |
| Other Number | pr07999337 |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographic references. |
| 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. |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Codependency |
| Drug addiction--Biography--United States | |
| Heroin abuse--Biography--United States | |
| Mothers and daughters--Biography--United States | |
| Parental acceptance | |
| Recovering addicts--Biography--United States | |
| Self-acceptance--Biography--United States | |
| By Name | Brogan, Karleigh Frisbie |
| By Genre | Biographies |
| Autobiographies | |
| Personal narratives | |
