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Macher, Tom, 1977-
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Macher, Tom, 1977-
Alcoholics -- United States -- Biography.
Men -- Alcohol use -- United States -- Biography.
Alcoholics -- Rehabilitation -- United States -- Biography.
Halfway houses -- United States.
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Macher, Tom, 1977-
Macher, Tom, 1977-
Alcoholics -- United States -- Biography.
Men -- Alcohol use -- United States -- Biography.
Alcoholics -- Rehabilitation -- United States -- Biography.
Halfway houses -- United States.
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Halfway : a memoir /
Tom
Macher
.
by
Macher
,
Tom
,
1977-
Scribner, 2018.
Call #:
362.292092 M149h
Subjects
Macher
,
Tom
,
1977-
Alcoholics -- United States -- Biography.
Men -- Alcohol use -- United States -- Biography.
Alcoholics -- Rehabilitation -- United States -- Biography.
Halfway houses -- United States.
ISBN:
9781501112607 (hc)
1501112600 (hc)
Edition:
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Description:
viii, 273 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"From a searing new literary voice, a raw, compulsively readable memoir about a young man seeking hope, community, and ultimately recovery from addiction in a series of halfway houses and boys' homes--the first book to so vividly capture this world. In his late teens
Tom
Macher
rebelled against a world that seemed stacked against him. Raised in a broken family and estranged from an absentee father suffering with AIDS,
Macher
turned to alcohol to escape the painful loneliness of his reality. In quick succession, he is kicked out of school, and then his mother's house, sent to a boys' home in Montana, and later, a halfway house in a truck-stop town of Louisiana. It was there that
Macher
encounters a community of young men struggling to survive--outcasts and thieves, liars and ex-cons, men seeking redemption, men running from the past. As he moves further away from boyhood and embraces a hard-won sobriety, these men--the broken, the hardscrabble, the near gone--become his salvation.
Macher
captures the trials of sobriety--suicide, death, recovery--and the unusual beauty that forms in the bonds of those who suffer. In visceral, striking prose, he introduces the unforgettable characters he meets along the way, from a former child actor, a young teen struggling with schizophrenia, a tough-love addiction counselor, a sex-addicted social worker, to Matt O, who became
Macher
's loyal friend and wingman. Raw, disarming, frenetic, and subversive, Halfway is a brutally honest portrait of the world of down-and-out recovering alcoholics, and a story of how, in their darkest hour, these men create the bonds that form a family"--From publisher.
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Memoirs.
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