Amy Reed, The Book Clean interests me with its touching feelings of addicts. Addicts who have hit rock bottom and been stuck together in rehab to face their problems, face sobriety and face themselves. None of the addicts like to talk about the truth about their past. Nor they like to share their darkest secrets and fears with a room of strangers.
A group of adolescents are addicts at first they are strangers to one another. Each one of them came from somewhere that they felt was their last stopping point and that they had nowhere to go, because of that they turned to their various addictions as comforts in the absence of what they lacked.But they learn to get along and learn about each other in the group session where they talk about their life stories. I learned that if you make a miss take there is no reason to hurt your self by blaming yourself or others. I like the book it is interesting how different this teens have faced bad situations that made them lead to the same consequence of being addicted to a drugs. One of characters from the book is Olivia she is addicted to pills she takes diet pills to get skinnier, at first she thinks she is different from everybody else in the rehab center because she says its not " a real drug" but she really is not she also has to face the fact that is also an addict. Olivia does not like anybody at the rehab center she does not talk to them at first she is always trying to work on school work and takes any time she can to do her homework. They don't really have time to do anything they have a schedule and do certain activities and group talks. The writer makes me believe in them as people because this are actual things that happen to many people , they become addicts to drugs or other things.
Olivia says " I don't understand what's so wrong about wanting to do my ******* homework. What's wrong with you people? Just because I'm focused and give a ****about my life and want to succeed, you think there's something wrong with me? Just because I'm different from all the losers in here?"
"I come from a whole society of perfect people." Compared to everyone in here, I might as well be from a different planet.
This book connects to people around the world with addiction and trying stay sober form their recovery of their addictions. To stay strong and not get tempted to go back on the wrong path of hitting rock bottom.
I recommend this book learn about how different people struggle in life like Olivia, Kelly,Christopher, Jason and Eve do they hit rock bottom or they learn to stay clean and sober?
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