Beautiful Boy
A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction
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What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted every moment of David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s addiction to drugs and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic Sheff became addicted to crystal meth, he was a charming boy, joyous and funny, a varsity athlete and honor student adored by his two younger siblings. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole, and lived on the streets.
David Sheff traces the first subtle warning signs: the denial, the 3 A.M. phone calls (is it Nic? The police? The hospital?), the rehabs. His preoccupation with Nic became an addiction in itself, and the obsessive worry and stress took a tremendous toll, but as a journalist, he instinctively researched every avenue of treatment that might save his son and refused to give up on him. Beautiful Boy is a fiercely candid memoir that brings immediacy to the emotional roller coaster of loving a child who seems beyond help
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This is very painful and hard to read but with a beautiful story about a parent's battle of not giving up with their child's drug addiction. This book made me feel as if I'm also experiencing the experiences that they had in their family and for me that's a great thing when it comes to non-fiction books. However, I was not a fan of this writing style. The constant references of quotes from movies and songs were kind of info dumpy that my brain can't quite process. But, I still appreciated the studies and the researches that are included in this book which made me learn a lot of things.
