Original sins : a memoir
(Book)

"A shattering portrait of addiction-generously open, desperately honest and confronting."-Catherine Cho, author ofInferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness An electrifying debut memoir of a pastor's son chronicling his loss of faith, his addiction to heroin and our universal quest to find something to believe in Matt Rowland Hill had two great loves in his life: Jesus and heroin. The son ofan evangelicalminister, Hill grew up with an unwavering devotion to the tenets of hisparents'Baptist church.Butby high school, he began to experience a crisis of faith. To fill the void, he turned to literature, and then to heroin and cocaine. By his twenties, Hill's substance abuse escalated into a full-on addiction. As he grew increasingly suicidal, he knew he had tocome to terms withboth religion and drugs to survive. Hill's debut is an extraordinary, gorgeously crafted memoir of faith, family, loss, shame and addiction. But ultimately,Original Sinsis a raw portrait of survival-of growing up and learning how to live.