Tweak

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Growing Up on Methamphetamines

By Nic Sheff

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Tweak by Nic Sheff provides a raw and honest depiction of the author's journey through addiction. It's an intensely personal memoir that details the challenges and setbacks he faced while trying to recover. Though it's not typically classified under children's books, it delivers a powerful message about resilience and hope.
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The story that inspired the major motion picture Beautiful Boy featuring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet.

This New York Times bestselling memoir of a young man’s addiction to methamphetamine tells a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of the road from relapse to recovery.

Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age eleven. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and Ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer in California to convince him otherwise. In a voice that is raw and honest, Nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling, heartbreaking, and true story of his relapse and the road to recovery. As we watch Nic plunge into the mental and physical depths of drug addiction, he paints a picture for us of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself. It's a harrowing portrait—but not one without hope.

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Tweak by Nic Sheff has garnered praise for its electrifying honesty and vividly raw portrayal of addiction. Critics commend the book for being difficult to read yet impossible to put down, with comparisons to Bukowski and Burroughs highlighting its powerful narrative. It's lauded as a riveting, heartfelt account that complements his father's perspective in a unique way, offering insights that are both necessary and illuminating for readers, especially teenagers and parents.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781416972198

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 January 2009

Country: United States

Imprint: Atheneum

Edition: Reprint

Illustration: f-c cvr (step-back)

Audience: Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 281g

Pages: 352

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Addiction & Recovery Children's Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational Nic Sheff Young Adult

About the Author

Nic Sheff is the author of two memoirs about his struggles with addiction: the New York Times bestselling Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines and We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction. Nic lives in Los Angeles, California where he writes for film and television.