Strung Out A Memoir of Overcoming Addiction by Erin Khar
Brand: Park Row
Product Description
This is a story she needed to tell and the rest of the country needs to listen. New York Times Book Review This vital memoir will change how we look at the opioid crisis and how the media talks about it. A deeply moving and emotional read STRUNG OUT challenges our preconceived ideas of what addiction looks like. Stephanie Land New York Times bestselling author of Maid In this deeply personal and illuminating memoir about her fifteenyear struggle with heroin Khar sheds profound light on the opioid crisis and gives a voice to the over two million people in America currently battling with this addiction. Growing up in LA Erin Khar hid behind a pictureperfect childhood filled with excellent grades a popular group of friends and horseback riding. After first experimenting with her grandmothers expired painkillers Khar started using heroin when she was thirteen. The drug allowed her to escape from pressures to be perfect and suppress all the heavy feelings she couldnt understand. This fiercely honest memoir explores how heroin shaped every aspect of her life for the next fifteen years and details the various lies she told herself and others about her drug use. With enormous heart and wisdom she shows how the shame and stigma surrounding addiction which fuels denial and deceit is so often what keeps addicts from getting help. There is no one path to recovery and for Khar it was in motherhood that she found the inner strength and selfforgiveness to quit heroin and fight for her life. Strung Out is a lifeaffirming story of resilience while also a gripping investigation into the psychology of addiction and why people turn to opioids in the first place. show more
Condition : New
Author : Erin Khar
Weight : 388
Publisher : Park Row
Language : English
EAN : 9780778389309
ISBN10 : 0778389308
Format : Paperback
Date of Publication : 20200825
Place of Publication : NA
Pagination : NA
Dimensions : 135 X 203 X 21mm