Beautiful Things: A Memoir

About this book

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER I come from a family forged by tragedies and bound by a remarkable unbreakable love Hunter Biden writes in this deeply moving and unflinchingly honest (Entertainment Weekly) memoir of addiction loss and survival. When he was two years old Hunter Biden was badly injured in a car accident that killed his mother and baby sister. In 2015 he suffered the devastating loss of his beloved big brother Beau who died of brain cancer at the age of forty-six. These hardships were compounded by the collapse of his marriage and a years-long battle with drug and alcohol addiction. In Beautiful Thingsan astonishingly candid and brave book about loss human frailty wayward souls and hard-fought redemption (Dave Eggers New York Times bestselling author)Hunter recounts his descent into substance abuse and his tortuous path to sobriety. The story ends with where Hunter is todaya sober married man with a new baby finally able to appreciate the beautiful things in life.