Good Morning, Destroyer of Men's Souls

A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love

Author: Nina Renata Aron
ISBN: 9780525576686

A scorching memoir of a love affair with an addict, weaving personal reckoning with psychology and history to understand the nature of addiction, codependency, and our appetite for obsessive love“Ferocious . . . glints with hard-won truths . . . Aron lights a path through the darkness of her past toward a better future.”—Los Angeles TimesNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PARADE “The disease he has is addiction,” Nina Renata Aron writes of her boyfriend, K. “The disease I have is loving him.” Their love affair is dramatic, urgent, overwhelming—an intoxicating antidote to the long, lonely days of early motherhood. Soon after they get together, K starts using again, and years of relapses and broken promises follow. Even as his addiction deepens, she stays, convinced she is the one who can get him sober. After an adolescence marred by family trauma and addiction, Nina can’t help but feel responsible for those suffering around her. How can she break this pattern?

Publisher: Crown
Publish Date: 2021-04-20

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs, Psychology / Psychopathology / Addiction, Social Science / Women's Studies

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