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Hazel Briar
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Whiskey Chaser
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Tricia, your words mean more than I can express. Thank you for reading Whiskey Chaser with such openness and care. You captured the heart of what I ho
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"This is a powerful book that should be required reading for anyone in the helping professions: teachers, social workers, librarians, medical professionals. Hazel Briar tells her story. I cried through three-quarters of the book and then celebrated th"
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"Wise, unflinching, and impossible to put down.
Read it with a box of Kleenex and multiple highlighters. Whiskey Chaser is a memoir and a reckoning. It chronicles one Red River Metis woman's childhood navigating both abuse and the system, which ultimate" Read more of this review » |
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"After finishing this book I sat staring out the window thinking. A book hasn't paused me from functioning in a very long time. The story of another hasn't resonated with a reflection of pieces of pain buried inside in a while. There are so many thing"
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“In Red River Métis tradition, storytelling is not just art; it is survival. Our ancestors braided history into song, laughter into lament, and grief into resistance.”
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“I was raised on rage and resilience, on stories never meant to be spoken aloud. But I refuse to carry their weight as my own. I will not inherit silence disguised as strength.”
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Thank you so much for this beautiful reflection. You saw Whiskey Chaser exactly as it was meant to be seen, not as a story of tragedy, but as proof th
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“In Red River Métis tradition, storytelling is not just art; it is survival. Our ancestors braided history into song, laughter into lament, and grief into resistance.”
― Whiskey Chaser
― Whiskey Chaser
“And drugs, drugs weren’t the problem. They were the only thing that made the pain quiet. They were routine. Ritual. Language. They gave rhythm to the day. They kept the ghosts at bay. They made it easier to laugh, to cry, to forget. They were the thing we had in common when nothing else made sense.
I didn’t start using because I wanted to destroy myself. I started because I already felt destroyed. Drugs gave me something to belong to. A pattern. A purpose. A pause button on the chaos in my chest. And once it became a lifestyle, it was hard to imagine anything else.”
― Whiskey Chaser
I didn’t start using because I wanted to destroy myself. I started because I already felt destroyed. Drugs gave me something to belong to. A pattern. A purpose. A pause button on the chaos in my chest. And once it became a lifestyle, it was hard to imagine anything else.”
― Whiskey Chaser
“I was raised on rage and resilience, on stories never meant to be spoken aloud. But I refuse to carry their weight as my own. I will not inherit silence disguised as strength.”
― Whiskey Chaser
― Whiskey Chaser
“And drugs, drugs weren’t the problem. They were the only thing that made the pain quiet. They were routine. Ritual. Language. They gave rhythm to the day. They kept the ghosts at bay. They made it easier to laugh, to cry, to forget. They were the thing we had in common when nothing else made sense.
I didn’t start using because I wanted to destroy myself. I started because I already felt destroyed. Drugs gave me something to belong to. A pattern. A purpose. A pause button on the chaos in my chest. And once it became a lifestyle, it was hard to imagine anything else.”
― Whiskey Chaser
I didn’t start using because I wanted to destroy myself. I started because I already felt destroyed. Drugs gave me something to belong to. A pattern. A purpose. A pause button on the chaos in my chest. And once it became a lifestyle, it was hard to imagine anything else.”
― Whiskey Chaser
“I was raised on rage and resilience, on stories never meant to be spoken aloud. But I refuse to carry their weight as my own. I will not inherit silence disguised as strength.”
― Whiskey Chaser
― Whiskey Chaser
“In Red River Métis tradition, storytelling is not just art; it is survival. Our ancestors braided history into song, laughter into lament, and grief into resistance.”
― Whiskey Chaser
― Whiskey Chaser
