Debut memoir Out 9.10.24
First in the family by
Jessica Hoppe
an unflinching and intimate memoir of recovery by Jessica Hoppe Latinx writer, advocate, and creator of the online community @NUEVAYORKA on Instagram.
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"First in the Family does the mammoth work of bending backward and forward, weaving a multivalent story that asks all of us to consider the actual, and often awesome, debris of necessary fracture. A beautiful work of art."
― Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American Memoir
“Crackles like a bonfire: fierce and wise, bearing light and warmth. Hoppe’s stunnng book invites us into the next, necessary chapter of our collective sobriety.”
— Leslie Jamison, New York Times bestselling author of Splinters, The Recovering, and The Empathy Exams
“A RICH EXCAVATION OF ONE WOMAN’S DESCENT INTO ADDICTION AND THE POWER FOUND IN LAYING IT ALL BARE. A TRIUMPHANT EXAMPLE OF HOPE WHERE BREAKING HARMFUL CYCLES IS NOT FOUND IN THE INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT BUT IN A COLLECTIVE ONE.
— Lilliam Rivera, award-winning author of Dealing in Dreams
“a powerful reckoning combined with an inspiring sense of freedom. perfect for anyone looking for an honest account of what it takes to navigate sobriety as a woman of color.”
— Lupita Aquino, LupitaReads
“An illuminating and intense reading experience.”
— KIRKUS REVIEWS
“A gripping narrative of generational addiction . . . This is an essential read, offering profound insights into the complexities of addiction in families and the often-obscured and difficult path to recovery.”
— BOOKLIST
“Jessica Hoppe writes with grace and gripping candor about being the first in her family to recover from addiction in this fiery debut memoir.”
― Esquire
“Hoppe debuts with a bold and illuminating account of getting sober and her attempts to ‘decolonize recovery’ by deconstructing ingrained narratives about people of color and substance abuse . . . She presents her findings in sharp, forceful prose, effortlessly weaving together her personal story and her insights into the intersection between race and sobriety. This is essential reading.”
— Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
“truth-telling at its finest. at once raw and brilliant…Jessica Hoppe’s debut memoir breaks not only family cycles, but the cycle of the american dream: a patriarchal, white, racist, misogynist nightmare that doesn’t stand a chance in the face of Hoppe’s cutthroat pen.”
— Javier Zamora, New York Times bestselling author of Solito: A Memoir
“sings with love and shouts with rage offering an uplifting account of resilience and recovery even while calling out the seductive dangers of the American dream.”
— Carl Erik Fisher, M.D., author of The Urge
“with great skill and generosity, hoppe recounts her life and her struggles for the benefit of us all. she wields her astonishing self-awareness like a lasso, drawing the reader in so that she might whisper into their ear, listen there’s a way out!”
— Alejandro Varela, author of The Town of Babylon and The People Who Report More Stress
About Jessica
Jessica Hoppe is a Honduran Ecuadorian writer based in New York City. She has been featured on ABC News and HBOMax Pa'lante! and her work has appeared in the Latino Book Review, The New York Times, Vogue, Paper Magazine, and elsewhere. Jessica is a board member of Time of Butterflies, a non-profit supporting families through domestic abuse recovery, and an organizer with the Central American Writer's group. Her debut memoir First in the Family is available for preorder.
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