| Both are about Nic's addiction and eventual recovery | We hear his voice — voices — from the next room: the boy narrator, all wonder and earnestness; wry and creaky Grandma; and the shrieking, haggy Grand High Witch |
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| Bright and athletic, he excelled in any setting and appeared destined for greatness | Sheff, we have your son" |
David Sheff's story is a first: a teenager's addiction from the parent's point of view, a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope.
27| I had heard nothing of the background of the movie before seeing it, and in order not to provide a spoiler, I truly didn't think this movie would end the way it did | Of course I let him |
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| So, no, he doesn't qualify for Eagle Scout, but still relatively small potatoes for a drug addict |
Real recovery creates—and can itself be—its own reward; this is an honest, hopeful book, coming at a propitious moment in the meth epidemic.
1| At Saint Helena, David and Karen attend family sessions | There's very little nuance to the kid, and the parents relationship starts off too ambiguous |
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| Thomas Lynch showed me that it is possible to love a child who is lost, possibly forever | Knowing the money will almost certainly go towards drugs, David declines, and Nic angrily leaves |
David and Vicki visit him in the hospital, and David and Nic tearfully embrace.
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