{"product_id":"2940170712335","title":"Halfway: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom a searing new literary voice, a raw, compulsively readable memoir about a young man seeking hope, community, and ultimately recovery from addiction in a series of halfway houses and boys' homesamp;mdash;the first book to so vividly capture this world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his late teens Tom Macher rebelled against a world that seemed stacked against him. Raised in a broken family and estranged from an absentee father suffering with AIDS, Macher turned to alcohol to escape the painful loneliness of his reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn quick succession, he is kicked out of school, and then his mother's house, sent to a boys' home in Montana, and later, a halfway house in a truck-stop town of Louisiana. It was there that Macher encounters a community of young men struggling to surviveamp;mdash;outcasts and thieves, liars and ex-cons, men seeking redemption, men running from the past. As he moves further away from boyhood and embraces a hard-won sobriety, these menamp;mdash;the broken, the hardscrabble, the near goneamp;mdash;become his salvation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMacher captures the trials of sobrietyamp;mdash;suicide, death, recoveryamp;mdash;and the unusual beauty that forms in the bonds of those who suffer. In visceral, striking prose, he introduces the unforgettable characters he meets along the way, from a former child actor, a young teen struggling with schizophrenia, a tough-love addiction counselor, a sex-addicted social worker, to Matt O, who became Macher's loyal friend and wingman. Raw, disarming, frenetic, and subversive,\u003ci\u003e Halfway\u003c\/i\u003e is a brutally honest portrait of the world of down-and-out recovering alcoholics, and a story of how, in their darkest hour, these men create the bonds that form a family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123307069680,"sku":"2940170712335","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170712335_p0.jpg?v=1763814888","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170712335","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}