Get Me to The Abbey
Get Me to The Abbey
Authors & Illustrator
Author:
Lisa
Maria
Avelleyra
Second Place Award
Nonfiction > Memoirs - Personal
Description
Get Me to The Abbey explores alcoholism and recovery through the eyes of a middle-aged Midwesterner. Lisa spends a month at an abbey turned residential treatment facility with a cast of characters whose hijinks and camaraderie are instrumental to her spiritual healing. Mischief and college basketball relieve the weight of soul-baring testimony. After leaving The Abbey, Lisa adjusts to life without drinking and returns to work and cultivates support in her Alcoholics Anonymous community. She is reunited with her Abbey cohorts by a heartbreaking tragedy.