Bibliograph

Everything is horrible and wonderful, a tragicomic memoir of genius, heroin, love, and loss, Stephanie Wittels Wachs

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Everything is horrible and wonderful, a tragicomic memoir of genius, heroin, love, and loss, Stephanie Wittels Wachs

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Everything is horrible and wonderful

Oclc number

1002129495

Responsibility statement

Stephanie Wittels Wachs

Sub title

a tragicomic memoir of genius, heroin, love, and loss

Summary

When Wittels Wachs's younger brother Harris died of a heroin overdose, she didn't know how to make sense of such a tragic end to a life of so much hilarious brilliance. Here she alternates between her brother's struggle with addiction, and the first year after his death. Even in all its emotional devastation, this exploration of the love between siblings will make you laugh, cry... and wonder if that possum on the fence is really your brother's spirit animal

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