| Title | Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction Book By David Sheff |
| Author | David Sheff |
| Type | Biography, Autobiography |
| Year of Publication | February 1, 2008 |
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| Rating | Click to rate this post! [Total: 1 Average: 5] |
Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction is a memoir by David Sheff describing how his family dealt with his son Nic’s methamphetamine addiction. It was published by Houghton Mifflin on February 26, 2008. The book grew out of the article “My Addicted Son” that Sheff had written for The New York Times Magazine in 2005. Son Nic Sheff’s perspective was recounted in his own memoir Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines, released simultaneously by a Simon & Schuster label.
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Beautiful Boy Summary
Beautiful Boy covers a substantial part of Nic’s life and deals with Major Sheff’s struggles over how to respond to a son he loves but is also a danger to his family. Nic, then a senior in high school, steals money from his younger siblings and is arrested for possession in front of them, prompting Sheff to install a security system to prevent Nic from entering. Nic attends many reshuffles throughout the memoirs, and even with those, he relapses many times. The longest period of sobriety that Nic had, before his last relapse in memories, was almost two years. Then he relapsed once more and entered treatment. At the end of the memoir, Sheff tells us that Nic has been sober for a year. Hope with all your heart that this is the last time and believe in him once again. But in his mind, he knows that a relapse can easily happen again and that it will be very difficult for Nic, his family, and himself. Another theme throughout the memoir is that Sheff wonders how much he is to blame and what he could have done to prevent his son’s addiction.
Throughout the memoirs, Sheff attends numerous Al-Anon meetings and therapy sessions. In these different sessions, you are continually being told about the three Cs: you didn’t cause it, you can’t control it, and you can’t cure it. Sheff finds it difficult to accept these statements throughout the memoirs. In the end, however, he says that he has come to accept two of the C’s, that he cannot control them, and that he cannot cure them. He realizes that he has done everything he can to try to help Nic and knows that Nic must figure things out if he wants to make a full recovery.
Beautiful Boy Review
A brilliant, heartbreaking, heartbreaking, and fascinating story, filled with beautiful moments and hard-earned wisdom. This book will save many lives and heal many hearts.
About The Author of The Book David Sheff
David Sheff is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Beautiful Boy. Sheff’s other books include Game Over, China Dawn, and All We Are Saying. His many articles and interviews have appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Playboy, Wired, Fortune, and elsewhere. His ongoing research and reporting on the science of addiction earned him a place on Time Magazine’s list of the World’s Most Influential People. Sheff and his family live in Inverness, California.
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Beautiful Boy Quotes
An alcoholic will steal your wallet and lie to you. A drug addict will steal your wallet and then help you look for it.
A world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white.
Anyone who has lived through it, or those who are now living through it, knows that caring about an addict is as complex and fraught and debilitating as addiction itself.
We deny the severity of our loved one’s problem not because we are naive, but because we can’t know.
How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?
