A review by gigizerlotti
Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines by Nic Sheff

challenging dark emotional sad tense

4.5

i’m a wreck. this book has been a long process, i read the first third about two years ago and put it down when i had to catch up with life. finished the rest now, with different eyes and experiences under my belt. comparing it to beautiful boy, nic’s father’s perspective, this gets down to the dirtiest and most awful depictions of addiction and how it affects a person’s life. the reader is sick to their stomach watching this young person cycle through moments of peace and then enveloped in the rabbit hole of drugs and bad decisions over and over again. but it is real. the shame and guilt that perpetuate the cycle is real. the desire to escape that to never face it is real. regardless this book is incredibly insightful and there are many lessons to take from it (i especially loved the final treatment center’s methods). still, i prefer beautiful boy only because there’s something hauntingly tragic about seeing that pain through another’s eyes.