title: The Roustabout Heart: Adventures in Recovery
author: Mary Killian
description: Mary Killian is a grateful alcoholic and addict in long-term recovery. Originally from the Bronx, New York, she devoted herself to drugs and alcohol for many years, getting clean in 2001 and staying that way. So far, so good. Mary started blogging a while back, posting stories and memories at highwiregirl.blogspot.com. Writing things down was a terrific idea. It still is. Mary currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina - in a blue house with turquoise shutters. She is friendly and enjoys a high quality rap session. In her free time, she likes to type, play the piano and eat cheese. The Roustabout Heart is her first book.
zlib_text: Open Heart 
  
  BY 
  TH E 
  S A M E  
  A UT HO R  
  Three Days and a Child 
  The Lover 
  Between Right and Right 
  A Late Divorce 
  Five Seasons 
  Mr. Mani 
  
  A·B·YEHOSHUA 
  Open Heart 
  Translated by Dalya Bilu 
  DOUBLEDAY 
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  PUBLISHED BY DOUBLEDAY 
  a division of Bantam D oubleday D ell Publishing Group, Inc. 
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  DouBLEDAY and rhe porrrayal of an anchor wirh a dolphin are 
  rrademarks of D oubleday, a division of Bantam D oubleday D ell 
  Publishing Group, Inc. 
  All of rhe characrers in rhis book are ficritious, and any 
  resemblance ro acrual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. 
  Graceful acknowledgmenr is made ro rhe following for permission ro reprint 
  previously published marerial: 
  Verse 47 (rhree lines, page 52) from The Book of Bhagavadgita, 
  translared by Juan Mascaro, Penguin Classics, 1962, 
  copyright © 1962 by Juan Mascaro. 
  Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd. 
  Book design by Paul R andall