The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison

The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath

Leslie Jamison

534 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir psychology challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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Addiction is seemingly inexplicable. From the outside, it can look like wilful, arrogant self-destruction; from the inside, it can feel as inevitable and insistent as a heartbeat. It is possible to describe, but hard to explore. Yet in The Recover...

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