Model Citizen

A Memoir

Model Citizen
Joshua Mohr
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Hardback
h208 x 135mm - 336pg
11 May 2021 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9780374211721
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The intimate, gorgeous, garish confessions of Joshua Mohr-writer, father, alcoholic, addictHer teeth marks in the wood are some of my favorite things. Every now and again she rips the pick out of my hand and tosses it inside the guitar . . . I hold it over my head, hole down, shaking it back and forth, the pick rattling around in there. And as it ricochets from side to side, I always think about pills. Maybe the pick has turned into oxy. Or Norco, codeine, Demerol. Maybe it' s a pill and when it falls out I can gobble it up. After years of hard-won sobriety, while rebuilding a life with his wife and young daughter, Joshua Mohr suffers a stroke at the age of thirty-five-his third, it turns out-which uncovers a heart condition requiring surgery. And fentanyl, one of his myriad drugs of choice. This forced "freelapse" should fix his heart, but what will it do to his sobriety? And what if it doesn' t work? Told in stunning, surreal, time-hopping vignettes, Model Citizen is a raw, revealing portrait of an addict. Mohr shines a harsh spotlight into all corners of his life, throwing the wild joys, tragedies, embarrassments, and adventures of his past into bold relief. His story is heartbreakingly real and yet unreal, which he captures in vivid, uncanny imagery, waking hallucinations that imagine hearts as hot air balloons, drug cravings as wry Nazi doctors, secrets as emaciated second selves. And yet Mohr' s memoir pulses with humanity and humor, capturing the immediacy of an addict climbing out of the dark pit of his past, learning to love and be loved, while never letting go of those experiences that shaped him and broke him. A darkly beautiful, funny, incisive confession, Model Citizen is brimming with hope and resilience, drawing the universal and human out of every moment.
In this searing memoir, Mohr opens up about his alcoholism and drug use with the vigor of someone purging themselves of their darkest memories . . . A potent mix of regret and resilience, Mohr' s story confronts his demons while finding a sliver of hope for a better life. --BooklistUnflinching . . . It' s [the] haunting threat of a foreshortened life that sets this work apart from traditional addiction memoirs. Mohr' s raw account is equally shocking and moving. --Publishers Weekly"Joshua Mohr' s new memoir, Model Citizen, is not for the faint of heart, but there' s something profoundly beautiful and deeply humanizing about it, too. The book forces us to reconcile the conflicting truths of our mortal existence - that we are alone in a world that doesn' t care about us even a little, even as we' re surrounded by and connected to other solitary souls who might just save us if we let them. There' s terror here, but comfort, as well. " --Richard Russo, author of Chances Are"From dozens of perfectly honed scenes combined in a mind and soul satisfying structure, Joshua Mohr has made a book that refuses to look away from all the ugliness, yet makes himself so vulnerable in the telling, that every bit of beauty sticks. Relentlessly honest, hilarious, gut-wrenchingly sad, Model Citizen is the opposite of a pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps memoir, and all the more hopeful (and profound) for it. " --Pam Houston, author of Deep Creek: Finding Hope In The High Country"No one anywhere writes into the gap between grit and grace better than Joshua Mohr. Model Citizen dives deep into the crucible of addiction and recovery and then breathes life back into us all. How thrilling to encounter a story in which I can feel both named as well as loved alongside a narrator who I respect and admire for diving down into the depths and bringing something back for the rest of us. A ride or die book. This book changed my life. " --Lidia Yuknavitch, author of Verge
Joshua Mohr is the author of the memoir Sirens and of several novels, including Damascus, which The New York Times called beat-poet cool. His novel All This Life won the Northern California Book Award. He is the founder of Decant Editorial.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780374211721
Published: 11 May 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: MCD
Publisher: MCD
Format: Hardback
Height: 208mm
Width: 135mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 336

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