A darkly funny literary memoir from the only one who survived to tell the story.
I used to think this was a book about addiction.
It isn’t.
It’s a story about the people addiction introduced me to and the unlikely human connection that saved my life.
For twenty years, I did everything I could to destroy myself. Somewhere along the way, I met drug dealers who showed me kindness, killers who protected me from myself, gangsters who taught me about loyalty, and friends who disappeared long before they should have. These are the people who kept me alive long enough to find my way back home.
Now I’m the only one left to tell their story.
I still don’t know why.
Some of what’s in these pages is funny. Some of it is heartbreaking. Looking back, I still can’t believe any of it actually happened. The fact that it's all true is probably the least believable part.
If you loved the raw honesty of Lit, the humanity of Beautiful Boy, or the literary grit of Jesus' Son, I hope you'll come meet the people who changed my life.
They deserve to be remembered.
