Keven's Choice: A Mother's Journey Through Her Son's Mental Illness, Addiction and Suicide

Review\n"Keven's Choice is a profound book...beautiful, sad, joyful—a searingly honest portrayal of a family many of us can relate to. This book will provide solace and inspiration to countless readers. It's about substance use and being a parent. Ultimately, it's about love."
-David Sheff, New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Boy and Clean\n"Keven's Choice is a heartbreaking story about loving someone with substance use disorder. Legere's remarkable work leaves you with a deeper appreciation of life's blessings."
-Ed Kressy, professional speaker and author of My Addiction & Recovery\nBarbara Legere takes readers on an eyewitness journey into the world of addiction and mental illness. Her son, Keven, spent half his life suffering from substance abuse disorders, depression, and anxiety, while she struggled to get him help from courts, healthcare providers, rehab facilities, and mental health professionals.
In Keven’s Choice, Legere tells the story of trying to navigate her son’s dark world while also addressing her related stress, worry and guilt. In the process, she shines a light on the hidden anguish of countless parents who are taking care of children that society tells them to abandon.
Legere offers empathy and compassion to parents and those impacted by addiction and mental illness. It is her hope to reduce the stigma surrounding people who suffer as she writes candidly about her son's life and eventual suicide.
For parents who have borne witness to overdoses, arrests, treatment, incarceration and even death, Keven’s Choice is a raw and intimate memoir that shows it’s possible and necessary to go on, even amidst the unimaginable.