There are few books I can honestly describe as absorbing, haunting, or engulfing; books whose clean, paranoid prose flies with bullet trajectory towards inevitable ruin, self-destruction, and also self-regeneration; books who gesture the dissonant rhythm of a doomed soul that must be responsible ...
This is a shocking and truthful account of crack addiction. I’m glad to have read it and admire the author’s courage to share such difficult moments with the world. It has left me questioning the nature of addiction and wondering how helpful compassion can be when it is offered to a person who no...