Voices on Addiction: Surrender
Somewhere along the way, the salty fresh sea breezes of the beach are replaced by the drier, more metallic air of my mother’s neighborhood. It might as well be a different continent.
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Candace Kearns Read
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Candace Kearns Read is a former Hollywood script reader who now teaches creative writing for Antioch University and Lighthouse Young Writers Program. She is the author of the screenwriting handbook Shaping True Story into Screenplay, and her essays have been published on fullgrownpeople.com, "The Manifest-Station", and elsewhere. "Surrender" is excerpted from her memoir, The Rope Swing (Eagle Wings Press, 2016), the story of her attempts to save her aging hippie mother from drug addiction.