"A moving, honest, authentic memoir of alcoholism, grief and surviving life’s worst storms."
Beautifully written, Sophie Calon's Long Going shares a harrowing account of her dad’s downward spiral into alcoholism in a remarkable memoir that’s full of love, as well as grief and pain. It’s also deeply rooted in Wales, land of the author and her father: “People often speak of hiraeth. Untranslatable, they say. Is it? Split it in two, hir|aeth, and you get long|gone. And that’s the crux of it, if you ask me. A longing for someone, something, sometime, someplace long gone. A heave in the gut for the no longer reachable”.
In this case, the unreachable is the author’s deceased father, whom she adored as a child: “He raised me to live with joy, curiosity, confidence, while he tipped slowly into oblivion. Obliterating all that possible living.” A man who went from being a successful lawyer to dying at the age of 55, lost to alcohol addiction after a period of homelessness and spending time in prison.
Underpinned by a desire to share the author’s insights into addiction, grief and breaking addiction, Long Going is raw, tender and tremendously readable.
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