Janelle Hanchett, at Book Passage, Ferry Building

In I'm Just Happy to be Here, Janelle Hanchett, pregnant at 21 by a man she'd known three months, embraced motherhood with the determined optimism of the recklessly self-confident. Over time, her questionable drinking habit spiraled into full-blown dependence, until life became bedtime stories and splitting hangovers, cubicles and multi-day drug binges--and eventually, an inconceivable separation from her children. For ten years, she grappled with the unyielding progression of addiction …before finding (sobriety) in a way she never expected.