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“Beautiful Boy,” From Book(s) to Movie

Rarely do two books equal one movie, but such is the math of “Beautiful Boy” starring Steve Carell and Timothee Chalamet. It’s the story of one family’s battle with addiction, based on Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), the memoir by journalist David Sheff, and…
Joanna Poncavage
November 20, 2018
Fiction

A Tornado Tears Apart a Prison, Laying Bare Complex Moral and Social Issues

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/fujita-4-terence-gallagher.jpg We all know how destructive a tornado can be, but can it also bring together people from different countries, backgrounds and socioeconomic levels? It does in Terence Gallagher’s Fujita 4, a novel that explores what can happen when different people are — in some cases literally — thrown together.…
Y. M. Nelson
October 16, 2020
Better SelfNonfiction

Rosemary Keevil’s Memoir “The Art of Losing It” Is a Gripping Story of Pain and Hope

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/losing-it.jpg Gripping and heartrending but ultimately hopeful, the recently released memoir The Art of Losing It by Rosemary Keevil (She Writes Press) is the story of a struggling mother who finds her way ― slowly, painfully ― from one side of grief and addiction to the other. When her brother dies of AIDS and her husband dies of cancer in the same…
BookTrib Guest Author
November 4, 2020
Fiction

Logic Breaks into Book Industry with “Supermarket”

Bobby Hall, best known in the music world as the platinum-selling recording artist Logic, has made a habit of shocking the world with his talent and ambition. A high school dropout raised in a home crippled with substance addiction, many would have predicted that Hall's inauspicious circumstances early on would…
Rebecca Proulx
March 26, 2019
Fiction

Award-Winning Poet Ocean Vuong’s Debut Novel

On Earth, We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press) is a hallucinogenic and free-wheeling meditation on addiction, violence and love, composed as a series of letters to an illiterate immigrant mother. Written by award-winning poet Ocean Vuong, this is ultimately a book about language and memory, the challenge of channeling and crystalizing…
Jessica McEntee
June 4, 2019