You'd Be Home Now by Kathleen Glasgow


 

This book is beyond phenomenal. I have read every book Kathleen Glasgow has written and they are all gritty, real books which involve struggles with addiction but also offer hope for a better future. 

In You'd Be Home Now, we meet Emory who is a forgotten child-ignored by her parents in favor of her seemingly perfect older sister and her drug addicted older brother. All of Emory's parent's energy is spent on them. After a car accident involving both Emory and her brother leaves Emory in the hospital and Joe is treatment for drugs and alcohol, Emory has even bigger problems than being ignored. When her older brother, Joey, comes home from rehab, everyone's focus is on keeping his safe and sober. While it goes well for a while, the pressure is clearly too much for Joey and he disappears. Can Emory get her detached parents to help find and save her brother or is she on her own in that search? Is it simply too late for Joey? 

Set for publication in late September, this is definitely a book to add to your wish list. In the meantime check out other Kathleen Glasgow novels. Caution, all have mature themes, but all leave you with hopeful messages. There's almost always light at the end of the darkest of tunnels. You just have to hope and love and fight your way through it!

-TK

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