Incorrigible: A Coming-of-Age Memoir of Loss Addiction & Incarceration

In her debut memoir MOTHER LOAD Wendy Adamson shared her story of landing in county jail after shooting her husbands mistress and ultimately finding freedom from addiction. Her latest book INCORRIGIBLE acts as a prequel taking us back to growing up with a mom who was a regular in the state mental hospital only to find herself institutionalized there as a teen. Adamsons memoir recounts a girls spiral of self-destruction in the throes of unspoken grief after her mothers suicide. Depressed and constantly at odds with an overwhelmed father she runs away until shes arrested by the police. At fourteen years old she finds herself plucked from a privileged life and forced to navigate the criminal justice system of probation officers juvenile halls and foster homes. Incorrigible is a raw gripping coming-of-age story of teenage struggle with familial dysfunction addiction and incarceration until finally against nearly insurmountable odds the author survives later finding empowering new purpose in her life.