A Life Worth Living - Hardcover

Rogen, Nick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1440146934 ISBN 13: 9781440146930

Publisher: iUniverse, 2009

Synopsis

Can a baby who's been forsaken half a world away save a wayward teen from self- destruction?

Nick Rogen is your average small-town teenager until his mother's bipolar disorder interrupts his youth and forces him into a world full of suicide attempts, doctors, and memory-erasing electroshock treatments. When a battle with substance abuse leads him to a dead-end job twisting off bottle caps from expired soda bottles, he gives up on his childhood dream of becoming a writer. He tries everything from backpacking around Europe to winning a fridge on The Price is Right to help find meaning in his crumbling life.

It isn't until his family drags him across the world to China that he begins to find hope and the inspiration to clean up his life through their adoption of an abandoned Chinese girl. Life isn't always fair though, and an unexpected death back home challenges him to finally face the life he's been trying to leave behind.

About this title

About the Author

Nick Rogen likes to write. He's a brother, a friend, a student, a dreamer, and a writer who lives in the State of Washington. A Life Worth Living is his first book.

Edition details

• Publisher: iUniverse
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1440146934
• ISBN 13: 9781440146930
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 220