Description A House on Stilts tells the story of one woman's struggle to reclaim wholeness while mothering a son addicted to opioids.
Paula Becker's son Hunter was raised in a safe, nurturing home by his writer/historian mom and his physician father.
He was a bright, curious child.
And yet, addiction found him.
More than 2.
5 million Americans are addicted to opioids, some half-million of these to heroin.
For many of them, their drug addiction leads to lives of demoralization, homelessness, and constant peril.
For parents, a child's addiction upends family life, catapulting them onto a path no longer prescribed by Dr.
Spock, but by Dante's Inferno.
Within this ten-year crucible, Paula is transformed by an excruciating, inescapable truth: the difference between what she can do and what she cannot do.
About the Author Paula Becker is the author of Looking for Betty Mac Donald: The Egg, The Plague, Mrs.
Piggle-Wiggle, and I, and coauthor of The Future Remembered: The 1962 Seattle World's Fair and Its Legacy.
She lives in Seattle, Washington.
| Truth | The difference between what she can do and what she cannot do |
|---|---|
| Donald | The |
| Remembered | The 1962 |
University Of Iowa Press A house on stilts: mothering in the age of opioid addiction, paperback/paula becker
