Review: Very Short; Very Powerful
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 13, 2012
I bought this book because of a mediocre review the author received.  I wanted to see for myself why the reviewer so hated Katherine's daughter.  The reviewer obviously has never dealt with an addict.  The disease of addiction runs in my family.  My mother was an alcoholic, my sister is a recovering alcoholic, I'm a recovering food addict, and my daughter was addicted to meth.  The Coles County, Illinois Sherriff's Department saved her life when they busted her.  She lost custody of her children to her ex-husband who, frankly, got her hooked on drugs and has only gotten clean and sober within the last couple of years.  I'm happy to report that my daughter has been clean for over a decade and is a wonderful mother.  It hurt me to leave her sitting in jail when they busted her, but even if I had the money to help her, I would not have done so.  By that time, I'd spent enough years in Twelve Step Programs to know she had to stay there for her own good.At What Price? is the story of a mother who did not have the kind of support group or experience with addiction I had when she had to deal with her daughter, Lacey's disease.  Nor did Lacey go straight when she finally got busted.  Lacey had reached the point in her disease where the drugs meant more to her than even her child.  And Rio knew that.  Rio also knew how much her grandmother, Katherine loved her.  This is a very short, powerful story of love, addiction, how it can ravage part of a family and forge another part.I suggest you read "At What Price?"  And keep in mind that Lacey is a very sick girl who could get well.  My mother died of the disease of alcoholism.  My sister has thirty years of sobriety, I'm coming up on three years of abstinence, and my daughter has over a decade clean.  I'm lucky.  It's heartbreaking to watch your family struggle with this disease.  But it's wonderful to watch them recover.Rochelle Weber is the author of the Moon Rock Series--Rock Bound and Rock Crazy.