Finding Tess: A Mother's Search for Answers in a Dopesick America

Macy, Beth

ISBN 10: 1713605937 ISBN 13: 9781713605935

Publisher: Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio, 2021

Synopsis

On Christmas Eve, 2017, Tess Henry was found dead in a dumpster in Las Vegas. Tess was a 28-year-old new mother, a former honor roll student, and a high school basketball player from suburban Roanoke, Virginia, a place ravaged by the national opioid crisis. The New York Times best-selling author Beth Macy chronicled Tess and her mom, Patricia, through Tess' harrowing, years-long battle to recover from heroin addiction in her award-winning book Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America. But just as Tess was on the brink of returning to a normal life with her young son, she was brutally murdered.

Finding Tess: A Mother's Search for Answers in a Dopesick America is a psychosocial autopsy of sorts, not just a retracing of Tess' final steps on the streets of Las Vegas but also a dissection of what went wrong during the six-year span of her opioid addiction as well as the changes inspired by her story. This exclusive audio documentary - a coda to Dopesick - features interviews with Tess, her family, and many of those who tried to help her along the way as well as the systems and the people who failed her. By tracing Tess' final steps as she tried so hard to make her way back to Virginia - and to her son - Finding Tess illuminates a journey shared by too many of the 2.6 million Americans battling opioid addiction, offering lessons from a cast of unlikely heroes and, along with them, hope.

About this title

About the Author

Beth Macy is an American journalist and non-fiction writer. Her first published book, Factory Man, was a national bestseller. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1713605937
• ISBN 13: 9781713605935
• Binding: Audio CD