Spiced with passion and humor, Grant Me the Serenity is the story of two sisters struggling to survive a battle with addiction as they fumble to piece together the fragments of their lives and find a way back home. PRAISE FOR BILLIE LIVINGSTON “You must read Billie Livingston. She is the sort of writer who rejects pomp, instead dealing out the plain story in language that is undecorated by attempts to be an artiste, and which conjures place and character seamlessly. And she makes Dickens look like Little Mary Sunshine.” - Globe and Mail “Livingston succeeds gorgeously in capturing the messiness and unresolvable ambiguities of familial love."-National Post “Livingston’s characters are scrappers. They’re canny and sharp and share a dark streak of humor that comes from the love of family and the communal understanding of knowing who is the enemy.” - New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal Livingston gets to the heart of human need, with all its confusion and messiness and she does so with textured emotion and blistering prose.” - Quill and Quire “Livingston’s characters are gems of dysfunction, unassumedly flying their freak flags at full mast, but ultimately undone by their prosaic surroundings.” -The Westender “.reading-any kind of reading-wakes up your mind to the equal and opposite extent that TV puts it to sleep. And that’s especially true when what your reading is as eloquent and insightful as Livingston’s work.” -The Georgia Straight “Livingston writes beautifully, even soulfully.” - January Magazine “She’s a damn solid writer who will make your head spin and your knees buckle. she has a way of capturing the push and pull of family dynamics, and demonstrating the way some fleeting events can linger with us, like bleeding tattoos.”- Broken Pencil Livingston has made her rep as one of the most dangerous writers you will ever be lucky enough to encounter." -The Vancouver Review “Livingston has a talent for the defining element. Throughout, the
