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JENNY, 16, WISHED SHE HADNT FOUND IT. Bobbis monthly list of bills, scrawled on an Aid to Families with Dependent Children stipend envelope, was tucked beneath an ashtray holding a half-smoked joint and smashed cigarette butts. Mary JanerentPG&Egroceries. As always, Jennys moms weed connection topped the list while food sat at the bottom.

Residing in rural Concow, California, in the 1980s, Jenny is accustomed to pot being the priority within her household and the necessities that most people take for granted not; however, the newfound methamphetamine is unsettling. A spoon on her dresser, a syringe in the bathroom medicine cabinet, tweakers in the attic! Jenny isnt sure she can endure two long years til shell graduate from Oroville High and be out on her own. When Bobbi, jonesing, delivers her very own death blow, Jenny cant wait. Halfway through her sophomore year, she leaves home for good, oblivious that what lies aheadteenage motherhood with no one to count onwill be so harrowing. How can she build a life for herself and son, and will it ever be normal?

When Bobbi dies of an overdose in 2007, her urgent last request begins chasing Jenny, now in her mid-thirties. Facing heart-rending struggles, in Smoke Rings Rising the once drug-endangered daughter lays out with grit and grace how she turns haunting truths into inspiring triumph. In doing so, Jenny finds the true meaning of love, living, forgiving, and letting go.

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