Reasons to Believe

Reasons to Believe is the sad funny twisted tragic and ultimately inspirational story of twenty-three year old Jimi Avery who longs to be a poet but is trapped by her addiction to alcohol and drugs and her seemingly bottomless capacity for self-destruction. After her beloved father dies she begins a roller coaster ride through discovery and desolation love and loss reality and pipe dreams. During the course of the novel Jimi tries and fails several times to give up alcohol and drugs with progressively more painful consequences. Finally with the help of an old friend of her fathers and a young girl she takes under her wing Jimi becomes willing to let go of her boyfriend Angelo and everything else that holds her back from lifes joy and beauty.Jimi extricates herself from the web of her childhood traumas and finds hope both in herself and the world outside. Ultimately she propels that hope into a workable sobriety. Jimis story is a fictional memoir filled with tears and laughter as she trudges haltingly along the bumpy road to recovery.