{"product_id":"first-in-the-family-a-story-of-survival-recovery-and-the-american-dream-paperback","title":"First in the Family: A Story of Survival, Recovery, and the American Dream - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJessica Hoppe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2025 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this deeply moving and lyrical memoir, Jessica Hoppe shares an intimate, courageous account of what it means to truly interrupt cycles of harm. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A powerful thunderclap of a memoir.\" --Lilliam Rivera, author of \u003ci\u003eDealing in Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuring the first year of the pandemic and the ensuing isolation, fatal drug overdoses spiked to numbers previously unseen. Hoppe's cousin was one of them. \"I never learned the true history of substance use disorder in my family,\" Hoppe writes. \"People just disappeared.\" At the time of her cousin's death, Hoppe had been in recovery for nearly four years, but she hadn't told anyone. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eFirst in the Family\u003c\/i\u003e, Hoppe shares her journey as the first in her family to recover from addiction and takes the reader on a remarkable investigation of her family's history, the American Dream, and the erasure of BIPOC from recovery institutions and narratives.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJessica Hoppe\u003c\/b\u003e is a Honduran Ecuadorian writer and creator of NuevaYorka. She has been featured on ABC News, and Pa'lante! Max. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eLatino Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Jessica is a board member of Time of Butterflies, a nonprofit supporting families through domestic abuse recovery, and is an organizer with the CentAm \u0026amp; Isthmian Writers group. She lives in New York City. \u003ci\u003eFirst in the Family \u003c\/i\u003eis her debut memoir.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.1 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 06, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45270192619599,"sku":"9781250865236","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0677\/3083\/3487\/files\/7es-PL33Iw9781250865236.webp?v=1779281966","url":"https:\/\/lumaryon.com\/products\/first-in-the-family-a-story-of-survival-recovery-and-the-american-dream-paperback","provider":"Lumaryon Universal","version":"1.0","type":"link"}