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Apology to the Young Addict

Audiobook
Nonfiction: Autobiography & Memoir
Unabridged   9 hour(s)
Publication date: 03/03/2020

Apology to the Young Addict

A Memoir

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Audio CD ISBN:9781696600491
Digital Download ISBN:9781684579082

Summary

Haunting and hopeful, Apology to the Young Addict is a reinvention of the recovery memoir and a lasting testimony from a master writing at his peak.

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Husband, addict, father, skeptic.

Now sixty—with years of sobriety under his belt—and the father of three sons, James Brown writes about finding a new path in life, making peace with the family whose ghosts have haunted him, and helping the next generation of addicts overcome their disease. Opening with the tragic tale of an elderly couple consumed by opioid addiction and moving through the horrors of a Las Vegas massacre to the loss of a beloved sponsor, these essays draw on Brown's personal journey of recovery to illustrate how an individual life, in all its messiness and charm, can offer a blueprint for healing. Haunting and hopeful, Apology to the Young Addict is a reinvention of the recovery memoir and a lasting testimony from a master writing at his peak.

Reviews/Praise

"A dark yet hope-infused look back at the long-term transformations fueled by an addict's recovery . . . Memorably well crafted, tight, and searing . . . Tough, meditative, realist prose creates a worthy addition to the crowded field of (post) addiction memoirs." ―Kirkus Reviews

Author Bio

James Brown is the author of the critically acclaimed memoirs The Los Angeles Diaries and This River. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and the Nelson Algren Literary Award in short fiction. He lives in Lake Arrowhead, California.