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Title: Unstitched
Author : Brett Ann Stanciu
Release Date : January 28, 2021
Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,Health, Mind & Body,Psychology,Biographies & Memoirs,
Pages : * pages
Size : KB

Description

What if society looked at addiction without judgement?

Unstitched shares the powerful story of one librarian’s quest to understand the impact of addiction fed by stigma and inevitable secrecy.

The opioid epidemic has hit people in communities large and small and across all socio-economic classes. What should each of us know about it, and do about it?

Unstitched moves readers from feelings of helplessness and blame into empathy, ultimately helping friends, family, and community members separate the disease of addiction from the person underneath.

A stranger, rumored to be a heroin addict repeatedly breaks into the small-town library Brett Ann Stanciu runs. After she tries to get law enforcement to do something about it — the elementary school children and young parents with babies frequent the place after all — he commits suicide. When she realizes how little she knows about opioid abuse, she sets out on a mission, seeking insight from others: people in recovery, treatment providers, the town police chief, Vermont's US attorney, etc.

Literature stitches broken people and cracked worlds together, and Stanciu’s journey leads to compassionate generosity, renewed faith, and ultimately a measure of personal redemption as she realizes she has a role in how to move one step nearer healing and away from destruction.