Stephanie: Stray is a memoir about the months when I returned home to California. I moved there from New York City. I had a reckoning with my past, with my parents, with my childhood in California. It is about being the child of addicts and the inheritance of damage. I think that so often when we look at the genetic factors of addiction, we're looking at a one-to-one ratio, which is, my mom's an alcoholic; therefore, I'm an alcoholic. While that wasn't my story, the period of time I'm writing about in Stray is when I realized that I had inherited a lot of their darkness and their recklessness and their propensity for self-harm even if I wasn't technically an alcoholic or a crystal meth addict. The book is about trying to move past that and give myself a different life or a possibility for a different life.