Letters to a Prisoner [Paperback]

Connie D (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 5, 2011

 One Mom's unique perspective! Set in Hawaii; this book targets the enabler in a rising climate of drug addiction and waning values. We are trapped by the choices we make.
Lose the victim mentality!
Get the help and the tools you need to make the right choice for yourself and your loved ones.

Poems and letters from a Mom to her meth addict son in prison as she learns to confront the addiction demons and stop enabling. Drop the victim/disease mentality. For more info: viddler.com/explore/habilitat/videos/35/

Editorial Reviews

Review

Honorable Mention in Poetry

--2011 New York Book Festival

From the Author

This book contains poems and letters written to my son in Oahu Community Correctional Center in 2009, the second time he was arrested after turning himself in for probations violations. The State of Hawaii is extremely lenient with these Drug Addicts and we, as law-abiding citizens, would be better served if these addicts were locked up sooner. My son is currently in Drug Court, a two year state sponsored supervised release program. He started experimenting with drugs at 19 after he left home and enlisted in the Army.
Currently in his twelfth program, he is thirty three years old and has been straight again for over a year now and is doing fine. Thankfully, my son is finally ready to live a drug-free life.

I chose to sign this book as Connie D. because this plague stretches all known boundaries; it is not just about me and my family, rather it is a wake-up call to all who choose to enable the addict.
I dedicate this book to the countless families afflicted with the plague of Crystal Meth addiction.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 100 pages
• Publisher: CreateSpace (January 5, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1456405365
• ISBN-13: 978-1456405366
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,859,817 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Cornelia Connie D. DeDona is the award winning author of Letters to a Prisoner by Connie D. Her poems and photography have been accepted and published for five consecutive years in Rain Bird Press, an award winning annual journal of Windward Community College, Kaneohe, Hawaii. Cornelia's poem "Writing Retreat" received Rain Bird's Kolekolea Honorable Mention in Poetry in 2010. Her poems are published in numerous online journals. She is a member of both the National League of American Pen Women- Honolulu and the Friends of the Library, where she volunteers year-round. She leads a monthly creative writing group for Habilitat-the place of change.
She is also a sustaining member of The Academy of American Poets.
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