{"product_id":"model-citizen-a-memoir-9781250829481","title":"Model Citizen: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe intimate, gorgeous, garish confessions of Joshua Mohr--writer, father, alcoholic, addict. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHer 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.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold in stunning, surreal, time-hopping vignettes, \u003ci\u003eModel Citizen\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePulsing with humanity and humor, revealing the immediacy of an addict climbing out of the murky pit of his past, \u003ci\u003eModel Citizen\u003c\/i\u003e is a darkly beautiful, incisive confession.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoshua Mohr\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the memoir \u003ci\u003eSirens\u003c\/i\u003e and of several novels, including \u003ci\u003eDamascus\u003c\/i\u003e, which \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e called \"Beat-poet cool.\" His novel \u003ci\u003eAll This Life\u003c\/i\u003e won the Northern California Book Award. He is the founder of Decant Editorial.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50561569816850,"sku":"9781250829481","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_74a7d5cc-60a3-43d2-af68-200e77e3fc75.jpg?v=1731848210","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/model-citizen-a-memoir-9781250829481","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}