- 304 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
A mother and her adult, drug-addicted son struggle for redemption and recovery in this "dark debut" novel that "has the power to lift and inspire" ( Publishers Weekly).
Night Navigation opens on a freezing-rain night in upstate New York: the kindling gone, the fire in the woodstove out. Retired high-school art teacher Del Merrick's thirty-seven-year-old manic-depressive son, Mark, needs a ride, but she's afraid to make the long drive north to the only detox that has a bed.
Through each of the four seasons, Night Navigation takes readers into the deranged, darkly humorous world of the addict—from break-your-arm dealers, to boot-camp rehabs, to Rumi-quoting NA sponsors. Mark can't find a way to live in this world; Del can't stop trying to rescue him. And yet, during this long year's night, through relapse and despair, Mark and Del see flare-ups of hope as they fitfully, painfully try to steer toward the light.
Told in the alternating voices of an addict and his mother, this "harrowing . . . cathartic" novel adds new depths to our understanding and literature of parents and their troubled children ( Kirkus Reviews).
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Front
- Part I
- 1 : Home
- 2 : Carpet
- 3 : Ice
- 4 : ID
- 5 : Leave a Message
- 6 : Living Trust
- 7 : Free Dog
- 8 : Ten-Foot Wall
- 9 : Password
- 10 : Sharps
- 11 : Claws
- 12 : Lazarus
- 13 : Almost April
- 14 : The Names of All the Planets
- 15 : Remainder
- 16 : Night Journey 2
- 17 : Whom You See Here
- 18 : Entry
- Part II
- 19 : Night Riders
- 20 : Echolocation
- 21 : Struts
- 22 : Roost
- 23 : Whistling
- Part III
- 24 : Interior Construction
- 25 : Reap
- 26 : Fugue This
- 27 : Gone
- 28 : Aaron Merrick, 1967-1995
- 29 : small
- Part IV
- 30 : Gulf
- 31 : Chant
- Back
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