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Brooke is Currently Reading

Brooke Bender is currently reading

Monster of a Land: On the Road in Search of Modern America

by Lauren Hough (Goodreads Author)

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Oct 15, 2026 03:01PM

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“In just that short amount of time, Nana’s addiction had become the sun around which all of our lives revolved. I didn’t want to stare directly at it.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

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“They are skeptical of the rhetoric of addiction as disease, something akin to high blood pressure or diabetes, and I get that. What they're really saying is that they may have partied in high school and college but look at them now. Look how strong-willed they are, how many good choices they've made. They want reassurances. They want to believe that they have been loved enough and have raised their children well enough that the things that I research will never, ever touch their own lives.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Transcendent Kingdom

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