Review:
'Extremely well written...detailed and visceral.' (Daily Telegraph magazine)
'Both takes on this story are riveting, brilliantly written, thoughtful, searingly honest and equally essential. They should be mandatory reading for every teenager and every parent of one.' (Daily Mail)
'Raw, powerful, and honest.' (The Bookseller)
'Full of jaw-tightening and occasionally grisly scenes of shooting up, deals gone bad, guns and sex, Sheff's story takes off like a shot in the arm with a terse, honest, and spontaneous narrative.' (Kirkus Reviews)
'The trajectory of drug addiction is nothing new, but Sheff's lucid, simple prose makes the heartbreaking journey seem fresh.' (San Francisco Chronicle)
'A raw and sad account, vivid in its depiction of the pleasures and tunnel vision of addiction and the challenges of sobriety.' (Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books)
'Nic Sheff’s wrenching tale is told with electrifying honesty and insight.' (Armistead Maupin)
'Difficult to read and impossible to put down.' (Chicago Tribune)
'An unflinching chronicle of life as an addict.' (U.S. News & World Report)
'The harrowing story of a decade of youthful drug abuse.' (The Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
About the Author:
Nic Sheff is the author of two memoirs about his struggles with addiction: the New York Times bestselling Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines and We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction. Nic lives in Los Angeles, California where he writes for film and television.
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