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A review by caseythereader
First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream by Jessica Hoppe
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Thanks to Macmillan Audio for the free copy of this book.
- It’s surprisingly (not so surprisingly) hard to find an addiction and recovery memoir that isn’t written by a white person, and FIRST IN THE FAMILY gets into the many reasons why that is.
- Hoppe blends memoir with facts and figures about how addiction was treated in her family and among people of color more broadly; specifically, how BIPOC experiences are purposefully erased from the mainstream frameworks of recovery.
- Hoppe reads the audiobook, and is such an engrossing and emotive narrator.
- It’s surprisingly (not so surprisingly) hard to find an addiction and recovery memoir that isn’t written by a white person, and FIRST IN THE FAMILY gets into the many reasons why that is.
- Hoppe blends memoir with facts and figures about how addiction was treated in her family and among people of color more broadly; specifically, how BIPOC experiences are purposefully erased from the mainstream frameworks of recovery.
- Hoppe reads the audiobook, and is such an engrossing and emotive narrator.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Racism, Rape, Alcohol, and Colonisation
Moderate: Child abuse