num_pages: 208
description: To the short list of genuinely great addiction memoirs we can now add Sirens a searing and at times hilarious account of Mohr's lost years in the dive bars and gutters of San Francisco. Like Mary Karr and Jerry Stahl there is no line Mohr won't cross either in his erstwhile quest for self-immolation or his fearless honesty in reporting back from that time. But what sets this book apart is Mohr's unwillingness to traffic in pat notions of redemption.Ron Currie Jr.This isn't your average recovery memoir. Mohr's honesty in this book is astonishing and necessary his candor about hitting bottom and relapsing deeply moving and important. It's a hell of a compelling read.Cari LunaAcclaimed novelist Joshua Mohr provides a captivating and complicated account of his years of substance abuse and culpability in his non-fiction debut. Employing the characterization and chimerical prose for which he has been lauded Mohr traces his childhood swilling fuzzy navels as a latch-key kid through his first failed marriage parenthood heart-surgery and his everyday struggle against relapse.Joshua Mohr is the author of Some Things that Meant the World to Me one of Oprah Magazine's Top 10 reads of 2009 and a San Francisco Chronicle bestseller; Termite Parade an Editors' Choice pick at the New York Times Book Review; Damascus called Beat-poet cool by the New York Times; and most recently Fight Song and All This Life. He recently moved with his family to Seattle Washington.
language: English
title: Sirens
publisher: Two Dollar Radio