Leaving Dirty Jersey

“If prose were a mind-altering substance, James Salant would be your neighbourhood pusher. Lord knows, the man will make an addict of you.” – Koren Zailckas, New York Times bestselling author of Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
“Normally I hate to tell anyone what to do, or what to think, or read. But I honestly believe every parent should read this book. And every teenager on the verge of a drug trip should read it. And everyone else, too. It’s that good, that important.” – Dava Sobel, author of Longitude
“Salant gives us a searing, sordid account of his 19th year, spent shooting and smoking meth and heroin in California…he nails the hellish tedium and despair of the addict. His memoir is a dirty bomb lobbed from the trenches of crank addiction.” – Salon.com
“Salant makes his mark by telling his tale plainly and well.” – New York Times Book Review
“Salant’s story offers an unrelentingly bleak account of one man’s encounter with America’s crystal meth culture.” – Publishers Weekly
“This book stands out. The atmosphere and the detail with which the bit players are brought to life recall William S. Burroughs’s classic Junky.” – Library Journal

James Salant, twenty-three, spent a good deal of his adolescence and adult life on drugs. After graduating from high school in Princeton, New Jersey, he spent the year documented in this book in California before returning to New Jersey for a six-month court-mandated rehabilitation program. He has been clean ever since.

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