How to Grow an Addict

How to Grow an Addict

2016 International Book Awards – Winner in Addiction & Recovery
2016 NIEA Awards – Winner in Addiction & Recovery
2016 Indie Excellence- Winner in Addiction and Recovery

Randall Grange has been tricked into admitting herself into a treatment center and she doesn’t know why. She’s not a party hound like the others in her therapy group—but then again, she knows she can’t live without pills or booze.

Raised by an abusive father, a detached mother, and a loving aunt and uncle, Randall both loves and hates her life. She’s awkward and a misfit. Her parents introduced her to alcohol and tranquilizers at a young age, ensuring that her teenage years would be full of bad choices, and by the time she’s twenty-three years old, she’s a full-blown drug addict, well acquainted with the miraculous power chemicals have to cure just about any problem she could possibly have—and she’s in more trouble than she’s ever known was possible.

Author: J.A. Wright

Publication Date: November 3, 2015

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2016 International Book Awards – Winner in Addiction & Recovery
2016 NIEA Awards – Winner in Addiction & Recovery
2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY) – Bronze Medal Literary Fiction
2016 Reader’s Favorite Book Awards – Silver Medal General Fiction
2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards – Honorable Mention General Fiction
2016 Kindle Book Awards – semi-finalist Literary Fiction
2015 USA Best Book Awards – Finalist General Fiction
2016 Indie Excellence- Winner in Addiction and Recovery

“Raw, honest, fascinating insight into the growing-up years of a girl raised by what might be an ordinary family with ordinary flaws, and the extraordinary effects their lives have on her. J.A. Wright makes Randall so real, you want to go round and pick her up, make her a decent meal and tell her she’s going to be okay.”
—Michele A’Court, columnist at The Press, New Zealand Comedy Guild’s
Comedienne of the Decade 2010 and author of Stuff I Forgot to Tell my Daughter 

“J. A. Wright’s book is a compelling illustration of what fertile ground families are for nurturing addiction. It’s not all doom and gloom however – the story is told in a clear-eyed, unsentimental voice which, for me, made it utterly convincing. It’s captivating, heartrending and uplifting.”
—Morrin Rout, Former Literary Director of Chch Writers’ Festival, Director of Hagley Writers’ Institute

About the Author

J.A. Wright was raised in the Pacific Northwest and moved to New Zealand in 1990. She is the founder and director of the World Buskers Festival (1994–2014), and the New Zealand Jazz and Blues Festival (1997–present). With more than thirty years in recovery from drug addiction, she’s been crafting this novel for years.

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