Apology to the Young Addict, James Brown
Apology to the Young Addict, James Brown
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Apology to the Young Addict
A Memoir

Author: James Brown

Narrator: Charles Constant

Unabridged: 5 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/03/2020

Synopsis

Husband, addict, father, skeptic.

Now sixty—with years of sobriety under his belt—and the father of three sons, James Brown writes about finding a new path in life, making peace with the family whose ghosts have haunted him, and helping the next generation of addicts overcome their disease. Opening with the tragic tale of an elderly couple consumed by opioid addiction and moving through the horrors of a Las Vegas massacre to the loss of a beloved sponsor, these essays draw on Brown's personal journey of recovery to illustrate how an individual life, in all its messiness and charm, can offer a blueprint for healing. Haunting and hopeful, Apology to the Young Addict is a reinvention of the recovery memoir and a lasting testimony from a master writing at his peak.

About James Brown

James Brown is the author of the critically acclaimed memoirs The Los Angeles Diaries and This River. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship and the Nelson Algren Literary Award in short fiction. Brown's work has appeared in GQ, the New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Ploughshares, New England Review, and many other publications. He lives in Lake Arrowhead, California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Patrick on June 14, 2020

It is always an intense rewarding pleasure to read new work from James Brown. His two previous memoirs, the highly acclaimed The Los Angeles Diaries, and the tremendous follow up This River, set the bar for “addiction memoirs.” Although trying to label Brown’s work as only relating to that sub-genre......more

Goodreads review by Katie.dorny on January 05, 2022

An astonishing set of essays that lays bare the realities of addiction.......more

Goodreads review by Bethany on March 07, 2020

I felt so many emotions while reading this collection of essays, being in recovery myself. It took me back and made me reflect on my own journey with addiction, the bad the ugly, my rock bottom, and now my recovery. It’s made me consider going to meetings to build my sober support system, to further......more

Goodreads review by Joseph on March 14, 2020

The writer Richard Price once said words to the effect that you don't judge an artist by how good or bad they are at what they do; you judge them by, if you were to take away their ability to create art, whether or not they would go insane. By this standard, James Brown is one of the most important......more

Goodreads review by Steph on April 14, 2020

This book is brilliant for so many reasons. I'm not sure there's too many of us who can say we haven't been touched by addiction in some way, whether our own or that of someone we love, and because of that I think this book speaks to all of us on so many levels. Though addiction is not something I'v......more

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