Model Citizen: A Memoir by Joshua Mohr (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Model Citizen by Joshua Mohr The intimate, gorgeous, garish confessions of Joshua Mohr--writer, father, alcoholic, addict Her teeth marks in the wood are some of my favorite things. Every now and again she rips the pick out of my hand and tosses it inside the guitar . . . I hold it over my head, hole down, shaking it back and forth, the pick rattling around in there. And as it ricochets from side to side, I always think about pills. Maybe the pick has turned into oxy. Or Norco, codeine, Demerol. Maybe its a pill and when it falls out I can gobble it up. After years of hard-won sobriety, while rebuilding a life with his wife and young daughter, thirty-five-year-old Joshua Mohr suffers a stroke--his third, it turns out-- which uncovers a heart condition requiring surgery. Which requires fentanyl, one of his myriad drugs of choice. This forced "freelapse" should fix his heart, but what will it do to his sobriety? And what if it doesnt work? Told in stunning, surreal, time-hopping vignettes, Model Citizen is a raw, revealing portrait of an addict. Mohr shines a harsh spotlight into all corners of his life, throwing the wild joys, tragedies, embarrassments, and adventures of his past into bold relief. Pulsing with humanity and humor, revealing the immediacy of an addict climbing out of the murky pit of his past, Model Citizen is a darkly beautiful, incisive confession. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Joshua Mohr is the author of the memoir Sirens and of several novels, including Damascus, which The New York Times called "beat-poet cool." His novel All This Life won the Northern California Book Award. He is the founder of Decant Editorial. Review Quote "Joshua Mohrs new memoir, Model Citizen , is not for the faint of heart, but theres something profoundly beautiful and deeply humanizing about it, too. The book forces us to reconcile the conflicting truths of our mortal existence - that we are alone in a world that doesnt care about us even a little, even as were surrounded by and connected to other solitary souls who might just save us if we let them. Theres terror here, but comfort, as well." --Richard Russo, author of Chances Are "From dozens of perfectly honed scenes combined in a mind and soul satisfying structure, Joshua Mohr has made a book that refuses to look away from all the ugliness, yet makes himself so vulnerable in the telling, that every bit of beauty sticks. Relentlessly honest, hilarious, gut-wrenchingly sad, Model Citizen is the opposite of a pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps memoir, and all the more hopeful (and profound) for it." --Pam Houston, author of Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country "No one anywhere writes into the gap between grit and grace better than Joshua Mohr. Model Citizen d ives deep into the crucible of addiction and recovery and then breathes life back into us all. How thrilling to encounter a story in which I can feel both named as well as loved alongside a narrator who I respect and admire for diving down into the depths and bringing something back for the rest of us. A ride or die book. This book changed my life." --Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Verge Promotional "Headline" The intimate, gorgeous, garish confessions of Joshua Mohr--writer, father, alcoholic, addict Details ISBN0374211728 Author Joshua Mohr Short Title Model Citizen Pages 336 Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 0374211728 ISBN-13 9780374211721 Format Hardcover Imprint MCD/FSG Subtitle A Memoir Audience General/Trade Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2021-06-28 US Release Date 2021-03-09 UK Release Date 2021-03-09 AU Release Date 2021-06-28 NZ Release Date 2021-06-28 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131963082;

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