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Beautiful Boy (2009) (edit title/settings)

A Father's Journey Through His Son's Crystal Meth Addiction

by David Sheff (Author) (edit contributors)

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Sheff's story is a first: a teenager's addiction from the parent's point of view a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope. Before meth, Sheff's son Nic was a varsity athlete, honor student, and award-winning journalist. After meth,... read more

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  • “We are connected to our children no matter what. They are interwoven into each cell and inseparable from every neuron. They supersede our consciousness, dwell in our every hollow and cavity and recess with our most primitive insticts, deeper even than our identities, deeper even than our selves.”
    David Sheff
  • “I want to open up and hear Nic and believe him, but I am unwilling to tear down the fragile dam that I have constructed to protect myself. I am afraid I'll be drowned.”
    David Sheff
  • “I have learned another lesson: that I can accept---a world of contradictions, wherein everything is gray and almost nothing is black and white. There is much good, but to enjoy the beauty, the love, one must bear the painful.”
    David Sheff
  • “When my child was born, it was impossible to imagine that he would suffer in the ways that Nic has suffered. Parents want only good things for their children. I was a typical parent who felt that this could not happen to us - not to my son. But though Nic is unique, he is every child. He could be yours.”

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It hurts so bad that I cannot save him, protect him, keep him out of harm's way, shield him from pain. What good are fathers if not for these things?

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introduction
Part I stay up late
Part II his drug of choice
Part III whatever
Part IV if only
Part V never any knowing
epilogue

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  • Everything: What the father and said to each other instead of "goodbye, I love you, I'll miss you, be careful..."

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  1. David Sheff (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Mariner Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: January 6, 2009
ISBN: 0547203888
Page Count: 336

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Reading Level: Young Adults

For mature teenagers and older, or to be read alongside an adult.

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