Beautiful Boy

David Sheff 2008

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
addiction memoir family methamphetamine

Our Take

Sheff watched his son Nic dissolve into methamphetamine addiction and documented his own unravelling as a parent who could not save his child. The terror is in the details — the missing money, the 3am phone calls, the relapse after every recovery. Love is not enough. This book proves it.

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