Chris Jansen

We Can Be Heroes Chris Jansen

"There's a young girl with straight black hair and black clothes and little red lines all up and down her arms that at first I think are cute little smiley sticker tattoos, but when I look closer I see they are razor cuts, and not just a few, but a dense red rose-thicket of wounds. She holds up a cardboard milk carton with one of her razored arms and laughs next to a fat girl with curly hair and braces who is wearing a pink sweatshirt emblazoned with four fiery gold letters: L-O-V-E."Real, raw, salacious; often hilarious, often heartbreaking, this stream-of-consciousness memoir takes us on a journey through drug Detox and rehab as the narrator encounters the problems and personalities of a treatment center. As the book unfolds we go deeper into the labyrinth of an addict's mind as he grapples with personal demons as well as the riddle of addiction itself. Is there a God? Does anything matter? Will the narrator break out of rehab and run away to start a new life? What dark secrets may lie in his past? Why was the Tear Woman saving her tears?We Can Be Heroes is for anyone who is lost. The message is simple: not only can we be the heroes of our lives--it's the one thing we must do. If we answer the call we've already succeeded. If we turn away, many will suffer.