![]() "Joshua Mohr's new memoir, Model Citizen, is not for the faint of heart, but there's something profoundly beautiful and deeply humanizing about it, too. Pulsing with humanity and humor, revealing the immediacy of an addict climbing out of the murky pit of his past, Model Citizen is a darkly beautiful, incisive confession. 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. This forced "freelapse" should fix his heart, but what will it do to his sobriety? And what if it doesn't work? Told in stunning, surreal, time-hopping vignettes, Model Citizen is a raw, revealing portrait of an addict. ![]() Which requires fentanyl, one of his myriad drugs of choice. After 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. Maybe it's a pill and when it falls out I can gobble it up. And as it ricochets from side to side, I always think about pills. I hold it over my head, hole down, shaking it back and forth, the pick rattling around in there. Every now and again she rips the pick out of my hand and tosses it inside the guitar. The intimate, gorgeous, garish confessions of Joshua Mohr-writer, father, alcoholic, addict Her teeth marks in the wood are some of my favorite things. ![]()
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