Model Citizen A Memoir
Model Citizen A Memoir by Joshua Mohr, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on March 9, 2021, spans 336 pages in English. This memoir offers an intimate exploration of Mohr’s life as a writer, father, and recovering addict. Through vivid and surreal vignettes, he recounts his struggles with substance abuse, including the challenges he faces after suffering a stroke that reveals a heart condition requiring surgery and the complications that arise from his past addictions.
Readers will find a raw and revealing portrait of addiction as Mohr candidly reflects on the joys and tragedies of his experiences. The narrative delves into themes of recovery, the complexities of family life, and the ongoing battle with substance dependence. With a blend of humor and humanity, Model Citizen presents a striking confession that illuminates the realities of living with addiction while striving for sobriety.
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The intimate, gorgeous, garish confessions of Joshua Mohr—writer, father, alcoholic, addict
Her 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, thirty-five-year-old Joshua Mohr suffers a stroke—his third, it turns out— which uncovers a heart condition requiring surgery. Which requires 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.
Pulsing with humanity and humor, revealing the immediacy of an addict climbing out of the murky pit of his past, Model Citizen is a darkly beautiful, incisive confession.
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