I recently finished I’ll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios, which is mostly about a girl falling in love with a Marine with PTSD, but which is also about a girl dealing with her alcoholic mother. And as I was reading the book, something started niggling at me about the way the mom’s alcoholism was described/treated. It sounded really familiar.
In the past year or so, I have read the following YA books that deal with a parent’s alcoholism:
- I’ll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios
- 52 Reasons to Hate My Father by Jessica Brody*
- This Side of Home by Renee Watson
- Best Foot Forward by Joan Bauer*
- The Museum of Intangible Things by Wendy Wunder*
- The Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Robin Palmer
- The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson
- The Year of My Miraculous Appearance by Catherine Ryan Hyde
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