Even if Your Heart Would Listen
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Even if Your Heart Would Listen: Losing My Daughter to Heroin

Even if Your Heart Would Listen: Losing My Daughter to Heroin


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About the Book

In January 2014, Elise Schiller's youngest child, thirty-three-year-old Giana Natali, died of a heroin overdose while a resident in a treatment program in Boulder County, Colorado. Even if Your Heart Would Listen is about Giana's life, which was full of accomplishments, and her mental illness, addiction, and death. Using excerpts from the journals, planners, and letters Giana left behind, as well as evidence from her medical records, Schiller dissects her daughter's treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD) at the five residential and several outpatient programs in eastern Pennsylvania where she tried to recover, taking a close look at the lack of continuity and solid medical foundations in the American substance-use treatment system even as she explores the deeply personal experience of her own loss. Poignant and timely, Even if Your Heart Would Listen is a meditation on a family's grief, an intimate portrayal of a mother-daughter bond that endures, and an examination of how our nation is failing in its struggle with the opioid epidemic.

About the Author :
Elise Schiller has been writing fiction, memoir, and nonfiction and actively participating in writing groups since adolescence. She has published several short stories and a number of articles and essays. In August of 2019, SparkPress published her memoir, Even If Your Heart Would Listen: Losing My Daughter to Heroin. She is now working on the second book of her Broken Bell series. Schiller also blogs about the opioid epidemic, books, and family history on her website. After a thirty-year career in education and family services in Philadelphia, Schiller retired in 2015 to write full time. She is an active volunteer and served on the Philadelphia Mayor's Task Force to Combat the Opioid Epidemic. She currently serves on the advisory board of the Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and disAbility Services and is an active member of the Friends of Safehouse. When not writing, reading, or volunteering, Schiller enjoys visiting museums and historical sites, often with one of her seven grandchildren or various nieces and nephews in tow.

Review :
2019 Philadelphia Writers' Conference, Nonfiction, 3rd place 2020 Best Book Awards Finalist in Health: Addiction and Recovery "Through her bravery and strength, Schiller strives to make a difference in our country and the way we treat addiction both within our own homes and on a national scale." --Parade, "From Humorous Fantasy to Heartbreaking Memoirs, These Are the 10 Most Inspiring Books by Women in 2019" "A heart-rending story of a mother's anguished journey to understand her daughter's addiction. It indicts a treatment industry that often does more harm than good and a drug policy that fails to help parents save their children's lives." --Maia Szalavitz, New York Times best-selling author of Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction "Courage is a parent who gets up every day and presses forward after losing a child. Bravery is a parent who fights to change the stigma of losing a child from Substance Use Disorder. In Even If Your Heart Would Listen, Elise Schiller shares the personal story of her beautiful daughter's struggles with mental illness and addiction, and her own story towards courage and bravery. A heartfelt read, and one that offers encouragement to me as a parent on my own journey towards courage and bravery." --Lillian Hightower, mother of Andrew 4/19/1985 - 3/5/2017


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781684630080
  • Publisher: She Writes Press
  • Publisher Imprint: SparkPress
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Losing My Daughter to Heroin
  • ISBN-10: 1684630088
  • Publisher Date: 27 Aug 2019
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 140 mm


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