By Tiffany Jenkins. New York: Penguin Random House, 2019.
An incredible story that is also unremarkable.
This book tells of how the author, a woman who was addicted to pills, wound up in jail, went through rehab and came out the other side. However, the book suffers from one major flaw, namely lack of a backstory, or to term it properly, lack of a story.
We are given the middle and the end of Jenkins' story, that being her relapse back into addiction, it again taking over her life, what she did to feed the habit that put her in jail, etc., but we are not given the beginning, except for brief glances. What were her childhood and teenage years like? What kind of home life did she have? How did she get addicted and wind up in rehab the first time?
Shorn of this crucial part of the narrative, this book is not worth reading.
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