I first discovered Nic Sheff when his dad, David, wrote the book, "Beautiful Boy" about his son's struggles with addiction. Nic then wrote two autobiographies: "We All Fall Down" and "Tweak." This is Nic's first foray into fiction, and it's pretty solid YA lit.Miles has schizophrenia, and he's ...
I love a good unreliable narrator, and that is exactly what Miles is... even he doesn't really know how reliable (or not) he is. Sheff really captured Miles's downward spiral into his disease as he stops taking his medication... it is slow and subtle at first, until all of a sudden you realize th...
The county sheriff, Cody Jarrett—a silver-haired man with leathery skin, straight, block teeth, and a long, pointed chin—drinks our coffee and eats our donuts and smokes Pall Mall cigarettes while he takes down my statement in the living room. His eyes are a clouded, milky blue and he writes in a...