About
Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer in California to convince him otherwise. In writing that is raw and honest, Nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling, heartbreaking, and true story of his relapse and the road to recovery. As we watch Nic plunge the mental and physical depths of drug addiction, he paints a picture of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself.
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Reviews
"Nic Sheffs wrenching tale is told with electrifying honesty and insight."
Armistead Maupin, author of The Night Listener and Michael Tolliver Lives
"Impossible to put down"
Chicago Tribune
"Paul Michael Garcia is the perfect choice for narrator; his stern and entirely believable voice captures the desolation in Sheffs tale. His reading is wonderfully underplayed, and necessarily so. Garcia becomes Sheff, offering a gritty and raw performance that demonstrates just how dire the circumstances surrounding Sheffs existence really were."
Publishers Weekly