num_pages: 288
description: Six women representing a wide range of racial, age, and class distinctions--including a housewife, schoolteacher, and former gang member--candidly share their own intimate stories of addiction, treatment, and recovery, in a volume that also includes commentary by the author and an account of her own battle with drugs and alcohol. 100,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Healing and Hope
titlecomplete: Healing and Hope
genres: Short Stories, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 36
publisher: Putnam Adult