Tweak By Nic Sheff

Nic Sheff, who has gone on to write many other books (and his dad has also penned some books about being on the other side of this disease,) is at his best in Tweak. The memoir is raw, emotional, honest and dark. At times his life reads like fiction and at other times his pain is so real, it hurts. When Sheff talks about hating the way he looks, feeling lonely, and not enough is when he speaks to the real heart of addiction. Getting high, wandering the streets, all those other things are really nothing more than a dark filler to propel the reader through the agony of what it means to be an addict.