Karen Tucker (1)

It was on the news the other day that 100,000 people died from drug overdoses, during the time of Covid. I was already reading this book, and it added a horrible reality to a book that is fiction. The book begins with two young woman, in their latter twenties, that have gotten clean from their drug addiction. The story goes back and forth from past to present so we learn how these two, Luce and Irene became friends, their drug addiction and their attempts to quit. Longing to stay clean, have a better job, a better life, a more secure future. A terrible tragedy will send them spiraling back down and their attempts again, to recover.

This is a no holds barred story about drug addiction. It is gritty and realistic. I felt a great deal of sympathy for these two young girls, and a horror of the things they do and the things done to them. It is also about friendship, the ways friends can help and hinder. A tough read but I understand more about the deepness of a drug addiction and the efforts to break an addiction.… (mer)