Bibliograph

Incorrigible, Wendy Adamson, A Coming-of-Age Memoir of Loss, Addiction & Incarceration

Type

Label

Incorrigible, Wendy Adamson, A Coming-of-Age Memoir of Loss, Addiction & Incarceration

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Incorrigible

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Wendy Adamson

Summary

In her debut memoir, MOTHER LOAD, Wendy Adamson shared her story of landing in county jail after shooting her husband's mistress and ultimately finding freedom from addiction. Her latest book, INCORRIGIBLE, acts as a prequel, taking us back to growing up with a mom who was a regular in the state mental hospital, only to find herself institutionalized there as a teen. Adamson's memoir recounts a girl's spiral of self-destruction in the throes of unspoken grief after her mother's suicide. Depressed and constantly at odds with an overwhelmed father, she runs away until she's arrested by the police. At fourteen years old she finds herself plucked from a privileged life and forced to navigate the criminal justice system of probation officers, juvenile halls and foster homes. Incorrigible is a raw, gripping, coming-of-age story of teenage struggle with familial dysfunction, addiction, and incarceration, until finally, against nearly insurmountable odds, the author survives, later finding empowering new purpose in her life

Target audience

adult

Creator