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Beautiful Things: A Memoir

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Product Description NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “ I come from a family forged by tragedies and bound by a remarkable, unbreakable love,” Hunter Biden writes in this deeply moving memoir of addiction, loss, and survival. When he was two years old, Hunter Biden was badly injured in a car accident that killed his mother and baby sister. In 2015, he suffered the devastating loss of his beloved big brother, Beau, who died of brain cancer at the age of forty-six. These hardships were compounded by the collapse of his marriage and a years-long battle with drug and alcohol addiction. In Beautiful Things, Hunter recounts his descent into substance abuse and his tortuous path to sobriety. The story ends with where Hunter is today—a sober married man with a new baby, finally able to appreciate the beautiful things in life. Review “The book is equal parts family saga, grief narrative and addict’s howl.”  —The New York Times “An unflinchingly honest look inside the First Family.” —EW “His journey is…deeply relatable for others living with addiction.” —USA Today "A gritty and shocking Biden family portrait that proves you never really know the burdens another person carries." —People “…a memoir at once harrowing, relentless and a determined exercise in trying to seize his own narrative from the clutches of the Republicans and the press.” — The Washington Post “I’ve never read a memoir like this before … it is extraordinary … you think you know his story … but this book, about addiction, about how many times Hunter Biden could have died, the President’s son, it’s breathtaking.” —Brian Stelter, CNN's Reliable Sources "...ineffably sad and beautifully written, tears the tabloid face off the story about an American family that has experienced the highest of highs and the lowest of lows." —Maureen Dowd, The New York Times  "Grounded and gritty and self-realized,  Beautiful Things ... is, at its core, as honest an account of addiction and grief as is possible to clearly see either of those two things ... The book operates on a Biden-esque strategy of underpromise, over-deliver ... it’s one we can all, in some way, see ourselves or our families or our hearts in at the same time."  —Vanity Fair    “I did not have high expectations for Beautiful Things …. I was wrong. Tears were flowing even before page 10. No one who has spent the better part of the last six years burning out the neural circuits of his brain with crack and drowning his grief over his brother’s death with booze has a right to be this vivid and effective a writer. I was stunned into submission … After a few pages I was wondering if I was reading the late Rolling Stone scribe Hunter S. Thompson, who turned his drug-induced adventures into stories, and not Hunter Biden … Beautiful Things is a heart-rending, but surprisingly tender account of one man’s remarkable journey to redemption and self-acceptance.” — Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "In an era of indulgent political memoirs that seek to promote a candidate’s platform and cast the family as picture-perfect,  Beautiful  Things stands out for its raw truths ... Hunter Biden has published a book worthy of that MFA he skipped to pay the bills. Maybe America has a first son’s story of addiction to help it finally confront this deep problem that has haunted so many families across the nation."  —Time.com "Hunter Biden has experienced some harrowing shit. But his willingness to look back on his ugliest moments without blinking is a genuine achievement. In the past 4 years, we’ve seen plenty of political memoirs with lurid details and wild accusations from those close to the Oval Office. But few have been so honest about their most humiliating moments and open about the hard, slow work of healing and reconciliation." —GQ "Sometimes moving, sometimes funny, often horrifying, thoroughly heartfelt, and believable." —Kirkus Reviews “In AA we say it doesn’t matter if you come from Yale or jai