"My son, the svelte and muscular swimmer, water-polo player, and surfer with an ebullient smile, is bruised, sallow, skin and bone, and his eyes are vacant black holes. When I reach him he goes limp in my arms. I half carry him, his feet shuffling beneath him."
"I’ll be able to be there for you now. That is something that I could never promise you before. I will be here for you. I will live, and build a life, and be someone that you can depend on. I hope that means more than this stupid note and these eight dollar bills.”
This book was hard. Usually in our "normal" world , we always think that drug addiction is a thing that affects only those dysfunctional families, not ours . How untrue that is ,is what this book and the struggle of a dad shows us. I was torn and crying while reading this book. How a dad did everything that a parent can do and then went ahead and did some more. I gave up on his kid after a while along the book and I thought he did too. But no ,this dad was relentless. I kept waiting for a happy ending but I forgot it wasn't a fairytale so I thought the ending was just perfect. Amazing book !
