num_pages: 320
description: In kindergarten Jarrett Krosoczka's teacher asks him to draw his family with a mommy and a daddy. But Jarrett's family is much more complicated than that. His mom is an addict in and out of rehab and in and out of Jarrett's life. His father is a mystery -- Jarrett doesn't know where to find him or even what his name is. Jarrett lives with his grandparents -- two very loud very loving very opinionated people who had thought they were through with raising children until Jarrett came along.Jarrett goes through his childhood trying to make his non-normal life as normal as possible finding a way to express himself through drawing even as so little is being said to him about what's going on. Only as a teenager can Jarrett begin to piece together the truth of his family reckoning with his mother and tracking down his father.Hey Kiddo is a profoundly important memoir about growing up in a family grappling with addiction and finding the art that helps you survive.
language: English
title: Hey, Kiddo: How I Lost My Mother, Found My Father, and Dealt with Family Addiction
publisher: Graphix