--- product_id: 1702168 title: "Beautiful Boy: A Heartbreaking Story of a Father’s Love, Addiction, and the Fight to Save His Son" price: "74.13 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/1702168-beautiful-boy-a-heartbreaking-story-of-a-father-s-love store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # 4.6/5 from 8,657 reviews Top 15 in Recovery & Biographies NYT Bestseller #1 Beautiful Boy: A Heartbreaking Story of a Father’s Love, Addiction, and the Fight to Save His Son **Price:** 74.13 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 📖 Dive into the heart-wrenching truth behind addiction — because some stories save lives. ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Beautiful Boy: A Heartbreaking Story of a Father’s Love, Addiction, and the Fight to Save His Son - **How much does it cost?** 74.13 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/1702168-beautiful-boy-a-heartbreaking-story-of-a-father-s-love) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Raw, Unfiltered Memoir:** Offers a brutally honest, firsthand account of a father’s relentless fight against his son’s meth addiction, blending personal pain with hope. - • **Highly Rated by Readers:** Boasts a stellar 4.6-star rating from over 8,600 readers, reflecting its powerful impact and emotional resonance. - • **Unmatched Bestseller Status:** Ranked #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, a must-read for anyone seeking deep insight into addiction and recovery. - • **Top-Ranked in Recovery Literature:** Holds top 15 positions in Drug Dependency & Recovery and Disability Biographies categories, proving its authority and relevance. - • **Essential for Families & Professionals:** A vital resource for parents, caregivers, and anyone touched by addiction, delivering both emotional depth and scientific insight. ## Overview Beautiful Boy is a #1 New York Times bestseller memoir by David Sheff, chronicling his son Nic’s devastating methamphetamine addiction and the family's struggle for recovery. Highly acclaimed and top-ranked in addiction recovery literature, this deeply moving book combines raw personal narrative with critical insights into addiction science, making it an essential read for families, professionals, and anyone seeking understanding and hope in the face of substance abuse. ## Description #1 New York Times bestseller “A brilliant, harrowing, heartbreaking, fascinating story, full of beautiful moments and hard-won wisdom. This book will save a lot of lives and heal a lot of hearts.” — Anne Lamott What had happened to my beautiful boy? To our family? What did I do wrong? Those are the wrenching questions that haunted David Sheff’s journey through his son Nic’s methamphetamine addiction and tentative steps toward recovery. Before Nic became addicted to crystal meth, he was a charming boy, joyous and funny, a varsity athlete and honor student adored by his two younger siblings. After meth, he was a trembling wraith who lied, stole, and lived on the streets. As a father grappling with his son's drug abuse, David Sheff traces the first warning signs: the denial, the three a.m. phone calls—is it Nic? the police? the hospital? His preoccupation with Nic became an addiction in itself. But as a journalist, he instinctively researched every treatment that might save his son. And in this unforgettable family memoir, he refused to give up on Nic. “‘When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our own pain and that of others.’ That’s ultimately what Beautiful Boy is about: truth and healing.” — Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia “Filled with compelling anecdotes and important insights . . . An eye-opening memoir.” — Washington Post This is the true story of a father’s journey through the agonizing reality of his son’s drug addiction—a gripping, firsthand account of a familyTested by one of the toughest challenges a parent can face. A Harrowing Transformation: Witness the heartbreaking descent of a charming, joyous honor student into a life on the streets, driven by a devastating addiction to crystal meth. A Father’s Unconditional Love: Follow David Sheff’s relentless search for answers and treatment, a journey fueled by a refusal to give up on his son, no matter how dire the circumstances. Parenting an Addict: Experience the raw, eye-opening account of a parent’s helplessness, denial, and fierce determination in the face of a child’s spiraling substance abuse. An Unforgettable Family Memoir: More than a story of addiction, Beautiful Boy is a deeply moving portrait of a family’s pain, resilience, and ultimate hope for recovery. Review: I first watched the movie - I first watched the movie version of "Beautiful Boy" with Steve Carrell and Timothee Chalamet and was so touched. Here was a book about a young man's horrifying addiction. It's central to the story, but I quickly realized it was more about the devastating impact drug abuse has on the people, parents especially, who love their children but feel helpless. I was so moved, and the movie remained in my brain for several days when I sought out the book. As moving as the movie was, nothing could prepare me for the intensity of the suffering that touched the entire family and the journey they needed to take in order to get some semblance of normality, or rather equilibrium, in their lives, even as they lived with the constant fear of relapse and the likelihood that their son, brother, or friend would likely die. Chock full of information about the science of addiction and the appalling lack of access to evidence based services really drove home the severity of our current opioid crisis, but even more educated me about the ravages of meth. It is astonishing. I've seen pictures of people whose physical appearance was ravaged because of the drug, but never grasped how effectively it destroys the brain. I thought it was a matter of physical dependence rather than psychological. David Sheff has written a memoir that pulls no punches, one that should be read by families of the addicted, as well as anyone interested in the science of addiction and recovery. Ultimately hopeful, I understood that the specter of relapse never completely vanishes, though eventually optimism is possible. Review: Unhappy families are unhappy in their own way... - ..unless addiction is involved. Sheff captures that mixture of hope and despair living in each parent whose child has gone into the dark, deep hole of addiction. His book is full of joy and tragedy. Love and relief, ambiguity and disgust and dislike. And guilt, so much guilt. Guilt for feeling all the love and hope and despair. In this book Sheff touches on pretty much everything parents feel (or at least this parent) when their child goes over to the dark side. Very well written, spellbinding in its own way, the reader will have a hard time staying neutral to the players in this personal tragedy. Sheff admits that for years people have given well-meaning advice and criticism. You should have done this. Why on earth did you do that. Until and unless you've had to deal with HIS issues, there is no right or wrong. Sheff did the best he could at the time with the information he had, at that static moment in time. No parent can say they haven't done the same thing. And who knows if the result would have been the same after all? Siblings, family, partners and friends have their own experiences with their addict, but a parent is a bit different. As Sheff points out, we are the soft place for them to fall, the most influential people in their lives until we send them off into the world and their tiny circle widens to include day care workers, teachers, coaches and friends. As parents we hand them over, so to speak, and our sphere of influence diminishes as the years go by- as it should. The mistake Sheff made, and he freely admits it, is that he was under the impression that he had armed his child with the tools he needed to succeed, and when that seemed to fail, Sheff began to question what exactly he had done to contribute to that failure. It is common if not universal among the parents of addicted children to blame their parenting. Other people will also look first to the home environment. Sheff takes a long hard look at himself and his parenting, and still has a hard time forgiving himself for mistakes he made. But who doesn't make mistakes? Conversely, does that mean parents get to take the credit for every good thing their child does? Is it right for a parent to take credit for the successes or failures of their child? And failure and success are rather subjective anyhow. Sheff does not really address this, although he tries hard to forgive himself, which he should. I really hope he has succeeded. What struck a deep note with me was how accurately he describes the sea change in parenting expectations... one day you are thrilled to see an A in spelling and almost the next you wake up grateful that the police haven't knocked on your door telling you that your child is dead. I have not read Nic Sheff's book yet, I want to leave a little break between the two. But I highly recommend this book for anyone who has ever been touched by addiction of any kind. It won't do a thing to prevent addiction but it may give you a gleam of insight into the silent and desperate life of the friend, co-worker or relative who has a child in trouble. ## Features - Great product! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #24,234 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #10 in Drug Dependency & Recovery (Books) #13 in Disability Biographies #14 in Substance Abuse Recovery | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 8,657 Reviews | ## Images ![Beautiful Boy: A Heartbreaking Story of a Father’s Love, Addiction, and the Fight to Save His Son - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61Tl2DqYrrL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Language, Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I first watched the movie *by L***A on March 9, 2024* I first watched the movie version of "Beautiful Boy" with Steve Carrell and Timothee Chalamet and was so touched. Here was a book about a young man's horrifying addiction. It's central to the story, but I quickly realized it was more about the devastating impact drug abuse has on the people, parents especially, who love their children but feel helpless. I was so moved, and the movie remained in my brain for several days when I sought out the book. As moving as the movie was, nothing could prepare me for the intensity of the suffering that touched the entire family and the journey they needed to take in order to get some semblance of normality, or rather equilibrium, in their lives, even as they lived with the constant fear of relapse and the likelihood that their son, brother, or friend would likely die. Chock full of information about the science of addiction and the appalling lack of access to evidence based services really drove home the severity of our current opioid crisis, but even more educated me about the ravages of meth. It is astonishing. I've seen pictures of people whose physical appearance was ravaged because of the drug, but never grasped how effectively it destroys the brain. I thought it was a matter of physical dependence rather than psychological. David Sheff has written a memoir that pulls no punches, one that should be read by families of the addicted, as well as anyone interested in the science of addiction and recovery. Ultimately hopeful, I understood that the specter of relapse never completely vanishes, though eventually optimism is possible. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Unhappy families are unhappy in their own way... *by M***I on March 29, 2014* ..unless addiction is involved. Sheff captures that mixture of hope and despair living in each parent whose child has gone into the dark, deep hole of addiction. His book is full of joy and tragedy. Love and relief, ambiguity and disgust and dislike. And guilt, so much guilt. Guilt for feeling all the love and hope and despair. In this book Sheff touches on pretty much everything parents feel (or at least this parent) when their child goes over to the dark side. Very well written, spellbinding in its own way, the reader will have a hard time staying neutral to the players in this personal tragedy. Sheff admits that for years people have given well-meaning advice and criticism. You should have done this. Why on earth did you do that. Until and unless you've had to deal with HIS issues, there is no right or wrong. Sheff did the best he could at the time with the information he had, at that static moment in time. No parent can say they haven't done the same thing. And who knows if the result would have been the same after all? Siblings, family, partners and friends have their own experiences with their addict, but a parent is a bit different. As Sheff points out, we are the soft place for them to fall, the most influential people in their lives until we send them off into the world and their tiny circle widens to include day care workers, teachers, coaches and friends. As parents we hand them over, so to speak, and our sphere of influence diminishes as the years go by- as it should. The mistake Sheff made, and he freely admits it, is that he was under the impression that he had armed his child with the tools he needed to succeed, and when that seemed to fail, Sheff began to question what exactly he had done to contribute to that failure. It is common if not universal among the parents of addicted children to blame their parenting. Other people will also look first to the home environment. Sheff takes a long hard look at himself and his parenting, and still has a hard time forgiving himself for mistakes he made. But who doesn't make mistakes? Conversely, does that mean parents get to take the credit for every good thing their child does? Is it right for a parent to take credit for the successes or failures of their child? And failure and success are rather subjective anyhow. Sheff does not really address this, although he tries hard to forgive himself, which he should. I really hope he has succeeded. What struck a deep note with me was how accurately he describes the sea change in parenting expectations... one day you are thrilled to see an A in spelling and almost the next you wake up grateful that the police haven't knocked on your door telling you that your child is dead. I have not read Nic Sheff's book yet, I want to leave a little break between the two. But I highly recommend this book for anyone who has ever been touched by addiction of any kind. It won't do a thing to prevent addiction but it may give you a gleam of insight into the silent and desperate life of the friend, co-worker or relative who has a child in trouble. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Compelling book with an unsympathetic character. *by K***S on January 11, 2014* I really liked this book purely as a story for its own sake. I have not had nor been close to a serious drug/alcohol addiction so did not relate to it on that level; and when the author got bogged down in things like the chemistry of addiction, I skimmed those passages. What I did really find compelling was how well the author conveyed the range of emotions he went through, and how well he was able to express his love of life and appreciation of everything beautiful in life despite his son's addiction. He also did a spectacular job of describing parenthood in general - all the ups and downs that go with it. And I really appreciated, especially at the end, that the book really is what it's subtitled: the father's journey, not the son's. What I found annoying however was the son, Nic. He comes across as a spoiled brat, addiction or not. This is not to say that I blame the father/author for Nic's addiction - I don't - but Nic got on my nerves as a main character in this book. So his parents weren't perfect and got divorced - welcome to the USA in the new millenium, kid. He had up to four parents who doted on him, and had every advantage of being an upper middle-class young white American male. The opportunities never stopped - private school, a summer in Europe, a job offer in China - all set up by others for this overindulged brat. Did he ever have to do a thing for himself? The thing that made me the sickest though was when the author mentions that someone asked Nic to write his memoir. Yet another opportunity given to him through no effort of his own. I'm sure that most addicts - not just the children of well-known authors who have a history of helicopter parenting - have that chance, right? And, spoiler alert, I googled Nic Sheff to see what he has made of his life. He's now written two books about, what else?, being an addict. Does he have any sort of identity outside of this? Does he do anything without mommy and daddy's connections? I loved the ending for the book, which is to say for the dad, but there's no chance I'll be reading the son's books. I'm glad he is surviving his addiction, but he doesn't seem to have done much with his life beyond exploiting that fact. ## Frequently Bought Together - Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction - Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines - Call Me by Your Name (MTI): A Novel --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tn/products/1702168-beautiful-boy-a-heartbreaking-story-of-a-father-s-love](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/1702168-beautiful-boy-a-heartbreaking-story-of-a-father-s-love) --- *Product available on Desertcart Tunisia* *Store origin: TN* *Last updated: 2026-10-06*