Beautiful Boy: A Heartbreaking Memoir of a Father's Struggle with His Son's Addiction and the Journey to Recovery

by David Sheff

and others’ good impressions of him. But I have learned that the AA adage is true: you’re as sick as your secrets.

one show, young men film one another doing ludicrous, humiliating things.

I am in a silent war against an enemy as

Inverness for a few days. Finally, when

Kevin was released pending trial. One night, he slipped out, and when he came home he was “sort of crazy—paranoid, anxious.” Jacqueline learned he’d taken methamphetamine.