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outspokenlibrarian 's review for:
Zoo Station: The Story of Christiane F.
by Christiane F.
This is like the German version of Go Ask Alice except that it is actually real. Christiane is just 13 or 14 years old when she starts getting into drugs, but there are societal factors at play here. Boredom, nothing for the kids to do . . . it's the 1970s . . . political upheaval. And so on. Small wonder that a bunch of young kids start getting addicted to heroin when it is relatively cheap and plentiful. Some reviews find Christiane's reasoning to be very shallow - but she is a teenager so that tracks. Many teenagers have no idea what the hell they are doing and they follow what everyone else is doing. Her going back to Detlef even when she was trying to recover and kick the habit is also something that feels pretty realistic to me.
However, it does feel incredibly repetitive when she gets to the point where she tries multiple times to get off heroin. I know that this is a true experience for many (heroin is notorious for needing multiple rehab attempts to stay off it, according to many reports) but I felt it could have been truncated a little bit.
However, it does feel incredibly repetitive when she gets to the point where she tries multiple times to get off heroin. I know that this is a true experience for many (heroin is notorious for needing multiple rehab attempts to stay off it, according to many reports) but I felt it could have been truncated a little bit.