We All Fall Down, Nic Sheff
We All Fall Down, Nic Sheff
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We All Fall Down
Living with Addiction

Author: Nic Sheff

Narrator: Charles Carroll

Unabridged: 9 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/10/2012


Synopsis

In his follow-up to his bestselling memoir Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines, Nic Sheff reveals a brutally honest account of a young person's struggles with relapse and rehab.

In his bestselling memoir Tweak, Nic Sheff took readers on an emotionally gripping roller-coaster ride through his days as an addict. In this powerful follow-up about his continued efforts to stay clean, Nic writes candidly about eye-opening stays at rehab centers, devastating relapses, and hard-won realizations about what it means to be a young person living with addiction. By candidly revealing his own failures and small personal triumphs, Nic inspires readers to maintain hope and to remember that they are not alone in their battles. A group reading guide is included.

Nic Sheff's Tweak, We All Fall Down, and his father's memoir about him (Beautiful Boy) are the basis of the film Beautiful Boy starring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet.

About Nic Sheff

Nic Sheff and his father David Sheff captured a nation of readers with their bestselling memoirs, Tweak and Beautiful Boy. These books explore teen drug addiction from two different points of view: a father's and a son's. Nic currently lives in Los Angeles, California, and writes for TV, including for the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why.


Reviews

Goodreads review by jv on June 20, 2018

I began to adore Nic Sheff when I read Beautiful Boy, written by his father. From that, I went straight to Nic's first book Tweak. I loved Nic even more. The courage that it must have taken for him to take such a stark look at his life, then put it on paper for all to see, simply astounding. Oh yeah......more

Goodreads review by Juliet on October 09, 2024

I have been reading a lot of memoirs on addiction for book research but what really stood out to me on this one was how Nic doesn't reflect back on the experience, rather relives it, taking the reader on an unsuspecting ride through his experience.......more

Goodreads review by Alexis on September 28, 2011

I was a big fan of Tweak and Beautiful Boy. Tweak is Nic Sheff's story about his addiction to meth, and Beautiful Boy is his dad's book about what it is like to have an addicted son. Both of those books are hard core, disturbing and graphic. I cried while reading Beautiful Boy. "We all fall down" is......more

Goodreads review by Juliette on April 28, 2011

This is Nic Sheff's second memoir about addiction. Basically, while riding the wave of success on a book tour for Tweak, Nic makes a series of selfish and predictable moves. He leaves rehab with a girl he meets in rehab, quits taking medication for bipolar disorder, lives off his girlfriend, start......more

Goodreads review by Jen from Quebec :0) on May 02, 2017

Where was the EDITOR on this one? Man, Sheff gets away with repeating entire paragraphs/thoughts/PAGES almost verbatim at points! Also, like most people (I'd imagine) I read this book because I loved his 1st memoir, TWEAK so much...well, this is no Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines. For starters......more


Quotes

Praise for We All Fall Down:
"Sheff is blessed with off-the-charts readability, and his sex- and profanity-laced first-person narration makes him lovable and hateable in equal measure."—Booklist (starred review)

"The present-tense storytelling and Sheff's authentic voice will keep readers engaged... Sheff doesn't provide simple answers--or any answers, really--but readers will respect his ability to move forward 'at my own pace.'"—PW

"Nic Sheff captures the insidious, almost vampiric mind-set of an addict who shrinks from any form of light. This book has more in common with Kafka than any recovery memoir I've read."—Mary Karr, New York Times bestselling author of Lit and The Liars' Club

Praise for Tweak:
"Difficult to read and impossible to put down."—Chicago Tribune

"Tweak is...Bukowski and Burroughs, the heart to his dad's head -- and the kid can write."—Seattle Weekly

"An unflinching chronicle of life as an addict."—U.S. News & World Report

"Sheff's story takes off like a shot in the arm with a terse, honest and spontaneous narrative."—Kirkus

"The trajectory of drug use is nothing new, but Sheff's lucid, simple prose makes the heartbreaking journey seem fresh."—San Francisco Chronicle

"Sheff's journey, like his writing, is raw and compelling, heartbreaking and witty. An honest and gracious reflection about the challenges of recovery."—Rachel Sontag, author of House Rules: A Memoir