We All Fall Down
Books | Young Adult Nonfiction / Social Topics / Drugs, Alcohol, Substance Abuse
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Nic Sheff
In his follow-up to his bestselling memoir Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines, Nic Sheff reveals a brutally honest account of a young person's struggles with relapse and rehab. In his bestselling memoir Tweak, Nic Sheff took readers on an emotionally gripping roller-coaster ride through his days as an addict. In this powerful follow-up about his continued efforts to stay clean, Nic writes candidly about eye-opening stays at rehab centers, devastating relapses, and hard-won realizations about what it means to be a young person living with addiction. By candidly revealing his own failures and small personal triumphs, Nic inspires readers to maintain hope and to remember that they are not alone in their battles. A group reading guide is included. Nic Sheff's Tweak, We All Fall Down, and his father's memoir about him (Beautiful Boy) are the basis of the film Beautiful Boy starring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet.
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Author
Nic Sheff
Pages
368
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published Date
2011-04-05
ISBN
0316175897 9780316175890
Ratings
Google: 2.5
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"After Beautiful Boy and Tweak, i rewatched Beautiful Boy last night and as stunning as Timothee and Steve’s acting was, these books are so raw and beautiful. <br/><br/>I understand every other review saying, they hate Nic or his thought process. But none say they hate the book. Nic knows he is an unlikeable human, hence the relapses and issues. Sometimes you want to actually kick him or shake him and just scream. But that doesn’t change this book being one of the most real addict memoirs out there. You can dislike someone, even hate someone but it’s their story- it’s their life. <br/><br/>I wouldn’t necessarily say this book would be great for someone prone to relapse because his description on doing drugs is almost romanticized, but even through that it does show every single little thing he lost- he just doesn’t seem surprised or care. Nic isn’t a character though, he’s not an “unlikeable character”, he’s a human and I think of these books as his diary. It takes a lot to be that vulnerable to share but I do believe it is what kept him sober.<br/><br/>Bragging about his book, holding onto it for dear life as his dream- kind of got him somewhere. Everytime he flushed drugs you feel what his family and friends felt- hope. Reading through this book is exactly what dealing with an addict is. Up and down."
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