A review by icz
Model Citizen: A Memoir by Joshua Mohr

4.0

Mohr is a great writer, and I plowed through the first half of the book in a few hours. I read the next 25% a little less enthusiastically, and ended up skimming the last 25% from the end backwards (forwards?). I can’t help feeling that as tortured and sometimes beautiful as his story was, it needed a little bit more editing. Or, maybe I just felt a little wrecked by it all by the end? Also, I couldn’t tell help but think that the cute little girl that helped keep him sober is going to turn into a pre-teen/teenager one day, and well— he may need to find a more stable source of motivation to stay clean. But, a worthy read by a brilliant mind.