One Good Reason: A Memoir of Addiction and Recovery, Music and Love

Andrea Aragon and Séan McCann

Nimbus Publishing

Synopsis

About the Authors

Born in Utah, raised in Minnesota, Andrea Aragon has had more jobs than most. She’s been everything from a racehorse hotwalker, a Director of Operations for a manufacturing company, and a waitress to a Chairwoman of a board of directors that oversaw a shelter for abused women and children. Her longest and most important position to date is that of matriarch of her small but mighty family. The daughter of a Vietnam War veteran, she is a fiercely loving mother of two growing boys, two indifferent cats and two bad dogs. She is still married to her second husband, Séan.

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About the Authors

Born on May 22, 1967, in Carbonear, Newfoundland, Séan McCann rose to fame as a founding member of the multi-million-selling folk group Great Big Sea. Today, Séan is a renowned mental health, addiction, and recovery advocate, an Order of Canada recipient and a highly sought-after speaker. Most importantly, though, Séan is a singer who is able to weave his story of surviving 25 years of alcoholism that once masked a dark secret of abuse by his childhood priest, through song. Music is Medicine, and Sing. Share. Survive. are the dictums by which he lives today.

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