Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction (U)

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 Nic.beautiful Boy Is A Fiercely Candid Memoir That Brings Immediacy To The Emotional Rollercoaster Of Loving A Child Who Seems Beyond Help. The Barnes & Noble Review Private Faces In Public Places / Are Wiser And Nicer Than Public Faces In Private Places, W.h. Auden Famously Noted. We Live In A Public Age, Alas, In Which Our Portal To A Fellow Creature's Suffering Is As Accessible As A Youtube Keystroke. And Yet The Exchange Between Public And Private Remains Uneasy Despite That Accessibility, As David Sheff's Book Poignantly Makes Clear.