The Heart and Other Monsters

The losses that come with addiction are very clear to the people who love the addict. Addiction robs a person, and their family and community, of the person that could have been. And then sometimes it steals a life completely. Rose Andersen knows first hand how addiction affects a person, because she herself travelled that road, eventually finding her sobriety and a life she wanted to live. Her sister was not able to find the way through and, instead, lost her life, leaving her family and community to navigate the profound grief of it. Rose was left with many questions: Why was she able to find recovery when her sister was not? Did she contribute to her sister's inability to love herself? What in the life of their family led to both of their addictions? And what would life be like now that Sarah could never find her way, now that she was dead?