{"product_id":"tweaked-a-crystal-meth-memoir-9780806538341","title":"Tweaked: A Crystal Meth Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eElegantly constructed  searingly honest  and impossible to put down. Andrew Solomon  author of The Noonday Demon  winner of the National Book Award  There are moments when I suddenly realize that Im a nice boy from Iowa who is entirely comfortable sitting in a room of freaks.  So begins Patrick Moores unforgettable account of life as a crystal meth addicta tweaker. Like a wild ride down Alices rabbit hole with a guide who is darkly funny and heartbreakingly honest  Tweaked chronicles a twenty-year trip that stretches from Moores lonely childhood in Iowa with his grandmother  Zelmaan alcoholic artist who  when loaded  turns frozen food into crafts projects to the day he sits  naked  in a Los Angeles rental  hallucinating about psycho-robbers while talking to a possum hes sure is God. Along the way  there are acid trips at the V.F.W.  Dexetrim study halls with his Bad Girl Posse in the seventies  teeth-grinding nights of dancing and anonymous sex in New York Citys hottest eighties clubs  taking pictures of Andy Warhol  losing friends and lovers  and navigating a Byzantine underworld of cookers  users  club kids  dealers  and colorful characters as intense as the drug itself. There is Lee  the glamorous  outr bad boy with a devastating wit and a taste for danger; Tony  the tweaker who likes to remove his eyebrows; Ding-Dong  the Depends-wearing  nearly blind housemate; Hisako  the artist and squatter with an impenetrable Japanese accent and a fondness for hot plate cooking; Mother Judy  the tough  butch rehab counselor who takes no prisoners  and countless others on the road from crystal meth hell to eventual sobriety.  Candid  gripping  and ultimately triumphant  Tweaked is that rarest of memoirsa tale so vivid and personal in the telling it feels like fiction  but every word is true.  DevastatingMoore writes fearlessly. --The Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67909695766581,"sku":"ByrdShop_0806538341","price":64.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780806538341.jpg?v=1794045231","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/tweaked-a-crystal-meth-memoir-9780806538341","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}