Beautiful Things, Hunter Biden
Beautiful Things, Hunter Biden
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Beautiful Things
A Memoir

Bestseller

Author: Hunter Biden

Narrator: Hunter Biden

Unabridged: 6 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/06/2021


Synopsis

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“I come from a family forged by tragedies and bound by a remarkable, unbreakable love,” Hunter Biden writes in this deeply moving and “unflinchingly honest” (Entertainment Weekly) memoir of addiction, loss, and survival.

When he was two years old, Hunter Biden was badly injured in a car accident that killed his mother and baby sister. In 2015, he suffered the devastating loss of his beloved big brother, Beau, who died of brain cancer at the age of forty-six. These hardships were compounded by the collapse of his marriage and a years-long battle with drug and alcohol addiction.

In Beautiful Things—“an astonishingly candid and brave book about loss, human frailty, wayward souls, and hard-fought redemption” (Dave Eggers, New York Times bestselling author)—Hunter recounts his descent into substance abuse and his tortuous path to sobriety. The story ends with where Hunter is today—a sober married man with a new baby, finally able to appreciate the beautiful things in life.

About Hunter Biden

Hunter Biden is a lawyer and an artist. A graduate of Georgetown University and Yale Law School, Hunter has worked as an advocate on behalf of Jesuit universities, and served on numerous corporate and nonprofit boards, including as vice chairman of Amtrak and chairman of the board of World Food Program USA. The son of Joe and Jill Biden, Hunter is the father of three daughters: Naomi, Finnegan, and Maisy. He lives with his wife, Melissa Cohen Biden, and their son, Beau, in California.


Reviews

This is Hunter Biden's memoir. Hunter is the son of President Joe Biden and brother of the late Beau Biden. Beautiful Things covers the key tragedies marking Hunter's life and the gritty details of his addiction to alcohol and crack. More than anything, this is a brutally honest story of addiction.......more

I’m not crying. You’re crying! Raw, real, and brutally honest. Hunter Biden’s memoir will forever stay with me. That epilogue! Highly highly recommended! Listen to the audio! It’s so good!......more

Goodreads review by Ashley

This was not a terrible book. It was not a good book either. It definitely wouldn’t have been published if Hunter wasn’t the presidents son. And I guess that’s my main problem with this book. Hunter Biden is man of incredible privilege that he never really addresses. He doesn’t really explore his ow......more


Quotes

"No one could narrate this punch-in-the-gut memoir more powerfully than its author, Hunter Biden, President Biden's younger son. It is his story: raw, unvarnished; filled with despair, anger, and redemption. An alcoholic who first drank at the age of 14, he later added crack cocaine to his pharmacopoeia. In his view at the time, he was functioning just fine—until his brother, Beau, died. After that, his addiction increased dramatically, his entire life narrowing to the search for his next hit. Biden's phrasing and rhythm increase the intensity of his story. His staccato intonation suggests that if he doesn't say it quickly, he might not say it all. The roller coaster ride will leave listeners breathless."