Devil's Avatar - Another Perspective for Addicts and Their Families - Softcover

Denise Snow

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937293696 ISBN 13: 9781937293697

Publisher: Two Harbors Press, 2012

Synopsis

Devil's Avatar - Another Perspective for Addicts and Their Families is a sensitive and respectful memoir of Kelly, a young woman who is losing her battle with ADD, Bipolar Disorder and drug addiction. It is told by her mother and reflects a parent's viewpoint of the journey. The drug addiction of their teen daughter rips the happy middle-class family from its moorings and sends it on a descending trajectory to a sad ending no parent would dare to fathom.

Along the way, as the parents try desperately to save their daughter, they have an insight about what force is really in play and find their own lives changing as they begin to look at life and people in a new light of tolerance. The allegory of addicts as avatars and evil as their pilot threads through the story. The Devil is used as a metaphor to visualize evil, which the parents begin to realize permeates everything associated with the poisons of drugs and alcohol when abused. All comes clear after Kelly dies and the parents have access to her notebooks and files; the rare honesty revealed in her writings about her inner turmoil of drug addiction is the spine of the book.

Addicts and their families can identify with Kelly's story and hopefully will gain some of her parents' hard-won insight and Kelly's late truths to help them win their own battles against drug and alcohol addiction.

About this title

About the Author

Denise Snow lives in Arizona. She has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in German Literature from the University of Arizona and a Master of International Management degree from Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Edition details

• Publisher: Two Harbors Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1937293696
• ISBN 13: 9781937293697
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 180