10 Top family books like A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction by Paula Becker

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A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

By: Paula Becker

4.42

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A House on Stilts tells the story of one woman’s struggle to reclaim wholeness while mothering a so…

If you liked the family plot in A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction by Paula Becker , here is a list of 10 books like this:

1. The Existence of Pity

By: Jeannie Zokan

2.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Growing up in a lush valley in the Andes mountains, sixteen-year-old Josie Wales is mostly isolated… read more

Similar categories in Jeannie Zokan's The Existence of Pity book and Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

2. American Wife

By: Curtis Sittenfeld

4.18

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

A kind, bookish only child born in the 1940s, Alice Lindgren has no idea that she will one day end … read more

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3. Fat Girl Walking: Sex, Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Skin...Every Inch of It

By: Brittany Gibbons

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Dear person holding Fat Girl Walking First of all, thanks for picking up this copy of my first book… read more

Similar categories in Brittany Gibbons's Fat Girl Walking: Sex, Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Skin...Every Inch of It book and Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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4. That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row

By: Jarvis Jay Masters

3.91

Format: None pages,

read more

Similar categories in Jarvis Jay Masters's That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row book and Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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5. My Dear Hamilton

By: Stephanie Dray

4.30

Format: 652 pages, Kindle Edition

From the New York Times bestselling authors of America’s First Daughter comes the epic story of Eli… read more

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"I was someone before I met Alexander Hamilton" ~ Betsy Schuyler"

-Stephanie Dray, My Dear Hamilton

"The promise of liberty is not written in blood or engraved in stone, it's embroidered into the fabric of our nation."

-Stephanie Dray, My Dear Hamilton

"What a high-minded thing revolution had seemed when it started; but now I wondered if, in trying to bring about liberty, we’d instead opened the gates of endless war, bloodshed, and immorality."

-Stephanie Dray, My Dear Hamilton

"I could hear no more. I couldn't see, couldn't think, couldn't speak. This couldn't be happening again. How could it possibly be happening again? Was I, like my eldest daughter, caught in some delusi…"

-Stephanie Dray, My Dear Hamilton

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6. The Wicked Unseen

By: Gigi Griffis

3.73

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The new girl in town is having trouble fitting into a community that believes there's a secret Sata… read more

Similar categories in Gigi Griffis's The Wicked Unseen book and Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

"If I had the Taser, Truck Nuts would be Electric Nuts"

-Gigi Griffis, The Wicked Unseen

"Fantasma. She didn't alert. That probably means it's animal blood. Or fake, maybe. ENGLISH! Get fucked. How's that?"

-Gigi Griffis, The Wicked Unseen

Cover of Stash: My Life in Hiding by Laura Cathcart Robbins

7. Stash: My Life in Hiding

By: Laura Cathcart Robbins

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and vivid memoir—in the vein of Drinking: A Love Story and Somebody’s Daughter—about t… read more

Similar categories in Laura Cathcart Robbins's Stash: My Life in Hiding book and Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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8. While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

By: Meg Kissinger

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illnes… read more

Similar categories in Meg Kissinger's While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence book and Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • family
Cover of More: A Memoir of Open Marriage by Molly Roden Winter

9. More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

By: Molly Roden Winter

3.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An unputdownable memoir of love, desire, and personal growth that follows a happily married mother'… read more

Similar categories in Molly Roden Winter's More: A Memoir of Open Marriage book and Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"There is something pathetic about crying within the first minute of therapy"

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"I worry that things are going too well, that they're all going to come toppling down."

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

"Why do I keep doing this? Why can't I stop this stupid pleasing everyone bullshit? I'm so fucking sick of myself."

-Molly Roden Winter, More: A Memoir of Open Marriage

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10. Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education

By: Stephanie Land

3.62

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling m… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Land's Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education book and Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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11. A Day Like This

By: Kelley McNeil

4.20

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

What if everything you’ve ever loved, ever known, ever believed to be true…just disappeared? Ann… read more

Similar categories in Kelley McNeil's A Day Like This book and Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

"Some choices are easier than others. The key is to be at peace in the moment. To celebrate the here and now. No life is perfect, I've learned. But if you're lucky, it can come pretty close."

-Kelley McNeil, A Day Like This

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12. Everything Is Fine

By: Vince Granata

4.20

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Grief, mental illness, and the bonds of family are movingly explored in this extraordinary memoir “… read more

Similar categories in Vince Granata's Everything Is Fine book and Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Eventually, I had no choice but to look at loss and pain, at all the pieces of my family's story that I didn't think I could ever understand. It was this process, recognizing the pieces, struggling t…"

-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine

"In reality, memories are more feeling than fact. Though we want to think of our memories as one long record, the reel of our greatest hits, a memory is a constellation of infinitesimal changes, elect…"

-Vince Granata, Everything Is Fine

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13. Evil Eye

By: Etaf Rum

3.95

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of A Woman Is No Man returns with a striking explor… read more

Similar categories in Etaf Rum's Evil Eye book and Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

  • family
"(...) she shrugged to articulate her feelings, even to herself. Words diluted things, made them smaller."

-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye

"Her family had always been told to classify themselves as white because of their Middle Eastern origins. But Yara had never considered herself white or been viewed as white by anyone else, and markin…"

-Etaf Rum, Evil Eye

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14. Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

By: David Sheff

4.16

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

With a new afterword Now a Major Motion Picture What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our… read more

Similar categories in David Sheff's Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction book and Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • memoir
  • family
"You're as sick as your secrets."

-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

"I accept evil in order to participate in the miraculous."

-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

"That's when it struck me that I can't take my life as long as I can still laugh."

-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

"A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white."

-David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction

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15. Too Soon for Adiós

By: Annette Chavez Macias

4.26

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

From author Annette Chavez Macias comes a heartfelt novel about a woman who embarks on an emotional… read more

Similar categories in Annette Chavez Macias's Too Soon for Adiós book and Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

  • family
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16. The American Queen

By: Vanessa Miller

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In 1869 a kingdom rose in the South. And Louella was its queen. Over the twenty-four years she’s be… read more

Similar categories in Vanessa Miller's The American Queen book and Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

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17. How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

By: Angie Cruz

3.90

Format: 195 pages, Hardcover

Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But whe… read more

Similar categories in Angie Cruz's How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water book and Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

"She knew I had to cry until I undrown from the inside."

-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

"If you're lucky, you find a man that you don't fall in the hole with."

-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

"Lulú talks and talks because she dique knows everything. But when I say something, people listen. This I learned from my father. The less you say, the more the people listen."

-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

"Talking reminds me that no matter how difficult my life is, I have always found a solution my problems. When I think about this, I am not afraid. We can do this. I can do this."

-Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

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18. Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir

By: Sly Stone

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Not many memoirs are generational events. But when Sly Stone, one of the few true musical geniuses … read more

Similar categories in Sly Stone's Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin): A Memoir book and Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig

19. Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

By: Rebekah Taussig

4.45

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Re… read more

Similar categories in Rebekah Taussig's Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body book and Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"The goal is not to avoid falling or needing help. The goal is to be seen, asked, heard, believed, valued as we are, allowed to exist in these exact bodies, invited to the party, and encouraged to dan…"

-Rebekah Taussig, Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body

Cover of Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook by Anthony Bourdain

20. Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

By: Anthony Bourdain

3.85

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

A lot has changed since Kitchen Confidential. For the subculture of chefs and cooks, for the restau… read more

Similar categories in Anthony Bourdain's Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook book and Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"You have to be a romantic to invest yourself, your money, and your time in cheese."

-Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

"That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund."

-Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

"There’s something wonderful about drinking in the afternoon. A not-too-cold pint, absolutely alone at the bar – even in this fake-ass Irish pub."

-Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

"I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction …"

-Anthony Bourdain, Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

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21. Mercury

By: Amy Jo Burns

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A roofing family’s bonds of loyalty are tested when they uncover a long-hidden secret at the heart … read more

Similar categories in Amy Jo Burns's Mercury book and Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

  • family
Cover of The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing by Lara Love Hardin

22. The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

By: Lara Love Hardin

4.46

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

No one expects the police to knock on the million-dollar, two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac … read more

Similar categories in Lara Love Hardin's The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing book and Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Things I Wish I Told My Mother by Susan  Patterson

23. Things I Wish I Told My Mother

By: Susan Patterson

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A mother and daughter unpack a lifetime's secrets while on vacation in Paris. Every daughter ha… read more

Similar categories in Susan Patterson's Things I Wish I Told My Mother book and Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

  • family
Cover of Everything/Nothing/Someone by Alice Carrière

24. Everything/Nothing/Someone

By: Alice Carrière

4.02

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

A powerful literary debut that tells of a young woman’s coming-of-age in the bohemian ’90s, as her … read more

Similar categories in Alice Carrière's Everything/Nothing/Someone book and Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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25. Same As It Ever Was

By: Claire Lombardo

4.00

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more

Similar categories in Claire Lombardo's Same As It Ever Was book and Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

  • family
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."

-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was

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26. American Daughter

By: Stephanie Thornton Plymale

4.20

Format: 288 pages, ebook

For 50 years, Stephanie Plymale kept her past a fiercely guarded secret. No one outside her immedia… read more

Similar categories in Stephanie Thornton Plymale's American Daughter book and Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • family
Cover of Out of the Corner: A Memoir by Jennifer Grey

27. Out of the Corner: A Memoir

By: Jennifer Grey

3.88

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply candid and refreshingly spirited memoir of identity lost and f… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Grey's Out of the Corner: A Memoir book and Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction by Paula Becker

28. A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

By: Paula Becker

4.42

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A House on Stilts tells the story of one woman’s struggle to reclaim wholeness while mothering a so… read more

Similar categories in Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction book and Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • memoir
  • family
Cover of Who's That Girl?: A Memoir by Eve.

29. Who's That Girl?: A Memoir

By: Eve.

4.11

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The definitive autobiography from Eve, the multiplatinum, Grammy Award®–winning, Emmy®-nominated ra… read more

Similar categories in Eve.'s Who's That Girl?: A Memoir book and Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Fruit You'll Never See: a Memoir About Overcoming Shame. by Gail Brenner Nastasia

30. The Fruit You'll Never See: a Memoir About Overcoming Shame.

By: Gail Brenner Nastasia

4.43

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

Growing up in Gloucester, Massachusetts, a quaint coastal town with a dark underbelly, Gail Brenner… read more

Similar categories in Gail Brenner Nastasia's The Fruit You'll Never See: a Memoir About Overcoming Shame. book and Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir by Lisa Marie Presley

31. From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir

By: Lisa Marie Presley

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley tells her whole s… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Marie Presley's From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir book and Paula Becker's A House on Stilts: Mothering in the Age of Opioid Addiction

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • family

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Transform Your Habits

Fat Girl Walking: Sex, Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Skin...Every Inch of It

Brittany Gibbons

5.00

Transform Your Habits

That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row

Jarvis Jay Masters

3.91

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Stash: My Life in Hiding

Laura Cathcart Robbins

3.92

Transform Your Habits

While You Were Out: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

Meg Kissinger

4.28

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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter

Erika L. Sánchez

4.57

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Annette Chavez Macias

4.26

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Everyone Knows You Go Home

Natalia Sylvester

4.03

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Sonali Dev

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