Dopefiend: A Father's Journey From Addiction to Redemption
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (675 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1936290634 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
With Holly Huckeba, Tim edits Junk, a literary fix, (junklit). Junk is an online magazine that features literary memoir about addiction, obsession, and unrequited needs, both real and imagined. About the Author Tim Elhajj lives in Washington with his wife and kids. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Brevity, Guernica, and others.
Dopefiend is a recovery memoir, but it's really about the lengths a father will go to find a satisfying relationship with his son. Sometimes you have to follow the most unlikely path to find the thing you want most.
. Junk is an online magazine that features literary memoir about addiction, obsession, and unrequited needs, both real and imagined. Tim Elhajj lives in Washington with his wife and kids. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Brevity, Guernica, and others. With Holly Huckeba, Tim edits Junk, a literary fix, (junklit)
Billy Bacon said I met Tim at Bill Roorbach's book signing for 'Life. I met Tim at Bill Roorbach's book signing for 'Life of Giants'. We swapped contact info and I sent him my copy of Bill's 'Write Life Stories'. A few weeks later he sent me 'Dopefiend'. Tim is the real deal--his words are down on print and his heart is on his sleeve--for all the world to see. I very much look forward to Tim's next writing endeavor.. "Present at the Creation" according to Gary Presley. I am a member of a writing group with Tim, and I can remember when he first began "forming" this memoir. Few writers can bring the right perspective to relating their life story in a way that offers universal meaning, a situation that grows more complicated when a writer must share the parts of that life that hurt him most. Tim's work is intelligent, introspective, sometime. Richard Gilbert said A brave and artful memoir. I loved Dopefiend because it's so honest and unsparing. The author shows his hard road to sobriety and does so without your feeling that he's asking for pity or sympathy--it's simply that he does have a story to tell. I imagine he hopes it will inspire other addicts, or anyone with a serious problem, but it isn't at all preachy. He shows himself at his worst and doesn't mak