{"id":876,"date":"2024-01-06T15:30:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T20:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryannmcguigan.com\/?p=876"},"modified":"2024-01-06T15:30:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T20:30:26","slug":"read-the-life-of-a-breck-girl-creative-nonfiction-in-booth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/read-the-life-of-a-breck-girl-creative-nonfiction-in-booth\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Life of a Breck Girl,&#8221; Creative Nonfiction, in Booth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s no shortage of books and scholarly articles about the effect alcoholism has on families. The most cursory Google search will turn up countless pages of entries, few suitable for the faint of heart. In \u201cThe Life of a Breck Girl,\u201d my hope was to convey what I suspect is the most damaging consequence of growing up in a household where drinking complicates daily life: the feeling of isolation, the gradual realization that the world you\u2019re part of is very different from the world outside. I imagine families who live in remote areas, miles from their nearest neighbor, or families from tightly knit communities, who cling to long-held traditions, might feel a kind of isolation. But for children of alcoholics the isolation is laden with shame, and for me, the shame couldn\u2019t begin to abate until I understood that we can\u2019t measure our worth by what\u2019s gone wrong or what we\u2019ve missed out on, but by what we\u2019re willing to strive for.   <a href=\"https:\/\/booth.butler.edu\/2024\/01\/05\/the-life-of-a-breck-girl\/\">https:\/\/booth.butler.edu\/2024\/01\/05\/the-life-of-a-breck-girl\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no shortage of books and scholarly articles about the effect alcoholism has on families. The most cursory Google search will turn up countless pages of entries, few suitable for the faint of heart. In \u201cThe Life of a Breck Girl,\u201d my hope was to convey what I suspect is the most damaging consequence of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yayserver.com\/maryannmcguigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}