Heroin, Hurricane Katrina, and the Howling Within: An Addiction Memoir
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| Rating | : | 4.67 (973 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B008RN322U |
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| Number of Pages | : | 530 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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The reason is simple. The sky was calm and peaceful and fucking gorgeous. The sunlight was so blinding to my eyes that had been locked closed from insanity and pain or the weight of the Seroquel that I did not take in the whole scene at first. I looked on with both disbelief and amazement."As the whispers of Hurricane Katrina swirled through New Orleans, I did not even consider evacuating. I looked at the sky. My eyes squinted from brightness and slight nausea; I looked down from the second floor of the raised old house and realized the streets had morphed into rivers. Follow me, sloshing through the storm's flood waters, searching for my next fix, with the slow realization that things will never be the same again.. I emerged onto the balcony. It was blue with small hints of grey, and the breeze was still while the clouds were large and puffy. I did not have enough heroin to make it very far out of the city, without facing the impending doom of dope sickness. This is my story of the storm of the century. "As I walked up the giant stairs, the hallway seemed to get brighter and brighter
About the Author Eliza Player spent nearly ten years living in New Orleans, soaking up all the dirt and grime that the streets and her addiction had to offer, until Hurricane Katrina threatened that way of life forever. Since she came to her recovery, she graduated from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, became a proud mother and wife, and has been writing about her past experiences in hopes to shed some light into places some feel are too dark. Come walk in her shoes
Come walk in her shoes . Since she came to her recovery, she graduated from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, became a proud mother and wife, and has been writing about her past experiences in hopes to shed some light into places some feel are too dark. Eliza Player spent nearly ten years living in New Orleans, soaking up all the dirt and grime that the streets and her addiction had to offer, until Hurric
SCB said The Definitive Heroin Addiction Memoir. I'm convinced that no better account of ground level addiction exists. Told with an excruciatingly beautiful level of prose that captures the shine and the underlying grime of New Orleans and the atmosphere on the street as Hurricane Katrina advanced, Eliza Player takes the reader with her on . i expected more Based on reviews, I was expecting this to be better than it turned out. The story was interesting, yes, but I felt like it was choppy at times. The back and forth storytelling got annoying, with flashbacks injected into the middle of current events over and over. Also, the author really needed. Love Stefanie