named Best book of 2024 by Esquire, People, SF CHRONICLE, MARIE CLAIRE, LATINA MEDIA & HIPLATINA
LONGLISTED FOR THE BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOK PRIZE
First in the family by
Jessica Hoppe
an unflinching and intimate memoir of recovery by Jessica Hoppe LatinE writer, advocate, and creator of the online community @NUEVAYORKA on Instagram.
MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2024:
ESQUIRE, TODAY.COM, ELECTRIC LITERATURE
Publishers Weekly Writer to Watch
“Crackles like a bonfire: fierce and wise, bearing light and warmth. Hoppe’s STUNNING book invites us into the next, necessary chapter of our collective recovery.”
— Leslie Jamison, New York Times bestselling author of Splinters, The Recovering, and The Empathy Exams
“A RICH EXCAVATION OF ONE WOMAN’S DESCENT INTO ADDICTION AND THE POWER FOUND IN LAYING IT ALL BARE. A TRIUMPHANT EXAMPLE OF HOPE WHERE BREAKING HARMFUL CYCLES IS NOT FOUND IN THE INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENT BUT IN A COLLECTIVE ONE.
— Lilliam Rivera, award-winning author of Dealing in Dreams
“a powerful reckoning combined with an inspiring sense of freedom. perfect for anyone looking for an honest account of what it takes to navigate sobriety as a woman of color.”
— Lupita Aquino, LupitaReads
“truth-telling at its finest. at once raw and brilliant…Jessica Hoppe’s debut memoir breaks not only family cycles, but the cycle of the american dream: a patriarchal, white, racist, misogynist nightmare that doesn’t stand a chance in the face of Hoppe’s cutthroat pen.”
— Javier Zamora, New York Times bestselling author of Solito: A Memoir
“sings with love and shouts with rage offering an uplifting account of resilience and recovery even while calling out the seductive dangers of the American dream.”
— Carl Erik Fisher, M.D., author of The Urge
“with great skill and generosity, hoppe recounts her life and her struggles for the benefit of us all. she wields her astonishing self-awareness like a lasso, drawing the reader in so that she might whisper into their ear, listen there’s a way out!”
— Alejandro Varela, author of The Town of Babylon and The People Who Report More Stress
About Jessica
Jessica Hoppe is a Honduran Ecuadorian writer and the author of First in the Family (Flatiron Books, 2024), which was longlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize and selected by Esquire, People, SanFrancisco Chronicle, Marie Claire, Latina Media, and HipLatina as one of the best books of 2024.
Named a writer to watch by Publishers Weekly (Fall 2024), Hoppe’s work has appeared in the Latino Book Review, The New York Times, Vogue, and elsewhere. Hoppe is Assistant Director of the Columbia Artist/Teachers Incarcerated Writers Initiative, the Justice-In-Education Initiative, and an inaugural NYWBA Justice Reads Fellow. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Nonfiction at Columbia University.
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