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*Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize*?
"A shattering portrait of addiction--generously open, desperately honest and confronting." --Catherine Cho, author of Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness
An electrifying debut memoir of a pastor's son chronicling his loss of faith, his addiction to heroin and our universal quest to find something to believe in
Matt Rowland Hill had two great loves in his life: Jesus and heroin. The son of an evangelical minister, Hill grew up with an unwavering devotion to the tenets of his parents' Baptist church. But by high school, he began to experience a crisis of faith. To fill the void, he turned to literature, and then to heroin and cocaine. By his twenties, Hill's substance abuse escalated into a full-on addiction. As he grew increasingly suicidal, he knew he had to come to terms with both religion and drugs to survive.
Hill's debut is an extraordinary, gorgeously crafted memoir of faith, family, loss, shame and addiction. But ultimately, Original Sins is a raw portrait of survival--of growing up and learning how to live.
Author: Matt Rowland Hill
Publisher: Hanover Square Press
Published: 07/05/2022
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781335469571
ISBN10: 1335469575
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Religious
- Self-Help | Substance Abuse & Addictions | Drugs
"A shattering portrait of addiction--generously open, desperately honest and confronting." --Catherine Cho, author of Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness
An electrifying debut memoir of a pastor's son chronicling his loss of faith, his addiction to heroin and our universal quest to find something to believe in
Matt Rowland Hill had two great loves in his life: Jesus and heroin. The son of an evangelical minister, Hill grew up with an unwavering devotion to the tenets of his parents' Baptist church. But by high school, he began to experience a crisis of faith. To fill the void, he turned to literature, and then to heroin and cocaine. By his twenties, Hill's substance abuse escalated into a full-on addiction. As he grew increasingly suicidal, he knew he had to come to terms with both religion and drugs to survive.
Hill's debut is an extraordinary, gorgeously crafted memoir of faith, family, loss, shame and addiction. But ultimately, Original Sins is a raw portrait of survival--of growing up and learning how to live.
Author: Matt Rowland Hill
Publisher: Hanover Square Press
Published: 07/05/2022
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781335469571
ISBN10: 1335469575
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs
- Biography & Autobiography | Religious
- Self-Help | Substance Abuse & Addictions | Drugs