Beautiful Boy by David Sheff

Beautiful Boy is a story about drug addiction and Nic, the main character in the story, started smoking and using marijuana since he was in 7th grade. One of the reasons why he started using drug was because of his parents’ divorce when he was only about 3. Nic thought that marijuana would help him blocked out his feelings when he felt too much, and it also made things blurrier. After going to therapies and lectures by his dad, Nic was influenced by his dad’s talk about how drugs were bad for his health and how it will affect your life afterwards. Things started to turn well when he was in 8th grade; he stopped hanging out with the friends who sold him the drug. He started to read massive amount of books, which helped him to become the award- winning journalist. He started to work hard, wanting to get good grades so he could enter an university. Through Nic’s hard working, he entered an university in Los Angeles which forced him to leave his family, and that was when he started the drug, meth.

This book was written from parents’ point of view, so that we could feel how the parents felt when they were facing their child’s addiction to drugs. I think this is a really interesting book, because through the storylines, we could actually see the way Nic changed and the way the parents reacted. This is one of the most depressing stories I have ever read before, and I recommend teenagers to read this book.