Beautiful Boy
David Sheff • 2008
Devastation Rating
addiction family grief loss
Our Take
A father watches his son disappear into meth and the prose trembles with the specific helplessness of loving someone you cannot save. Sheff writes from the outside looking in and that vantage is its own devastation — you see what Nic cannot. Beautiful Boy is grief in real time, still warm.
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