Tweak

‘Extremely well written…detailed and visceral.’ * Daily Telegraph magazine *‘Both takes on this story are riveting, brilliantly written, thoughtful, searingly honest and equally essential. They should be mandatory reading for every teenager and every parent of one.’ * Daily Mail *‘Raw, powerful, and honest.’ * The Bookseller *‘Full of jaw-tightening and occasionally grisly scenes of shooting up, deals gone bad, guns and sex, Sheff’s story takes off like a shot in the arm with a terse, honest, and spontaneous narrative.’ * Kirkus Reviews *‘The trajectory of drug addiction is nothing new, but Sheff’s lucid, simple prose makes the heartbreaking journey seem fresh.’ * San Francisco Chronicle *‘A raw and sad account, vivid in its depiction of the pleasures and tunnel vision of addiction and the challenges of sobriety.’ * Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books *‘Nic Sheff’s wrenching tale is told with electrifying honesty and insight.’ – Armistead Maupin‘Difficult to read and impossible to put down.’ * Chicago Tribune *‘An unflinching chronicle of life as an addict.’ * U.S. News & World Report *‘The harrowing story of a decade of youthful drug abuse.’ * The Seattle Post-Intelligencer *‘Riveting.’ * Playboy *‘Sheff details his downward spiral, and the reader feels his desperation…’ * VOYA *‘Graphic and detailed memoir [that] painfully depicts the author’s addiction to methamphetamines and his tortuous, tentative journey to health.’ * School Library Journal *‘You begin to understand how love can miss its mark and spiral toward tragedy.’ * Reading Room *‘Searingly honest.’ * Booklist *

Nic Sheff is the author of two memoirs about his struggles with addiction: the New York Times bestselling Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines and We All Fall Down: Living with Addiction. Nic lives in Los Angeles, California where he writes for film and television.