This River, James Brown
This River, James Brown
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This River
A Memoir

Author: James Brown

Narrator: Charles Constant

Unabridged: 4 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/24/2020

Synopsis

Award-winning author James Brown gained a cult following after chronicling his turbulent childhood and spiraling drug addiction in The Los Angeles Diaries. This River picks up where Brown left off in his first memoir, describing his tenuous relationship with sobriety, telling of agonizing relapses, and tracking his attempts to become a better father.

This is the heartbreaking and at times uplifting tale of Brown's battles, peeking into his former life as an addict and detailing his subsequent ascent to sobriety and fight for redemption.

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

Sequels are tough. The reader has expectations, a preconceived idea as to what the author has to achieve, and a need for the book to be as good, if not better than the original. However, this also creates another set of problems: the author is either expected to write a continuation of the same sort......more

Goodreads review by Antonia

James Brown has a sixth sense for digging out the darkness and holding it up to the light. He's not a show off. He pulls no punches, has no tricks up his sleeve, he neither tantalizes nor teases. He simply shows the reader the river using an efficient economy of words. His moving story, "This River,......more

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