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Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls: A Memoir of Women, Addiction, and Love

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I Index Overall Rating

Readers

45/100

Critics

88/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Nina Renata Aron

Publisher:

Crown Publishing Group (NY)

Date:

April 21, 2020

A memoir of a love affair with an addict, weaving personal reckoning with psychology and history to understand the nature of addiction, codependency, and our appetite for obsessive love.

What The Reviewers Say

Jim Ruland,
Los Angeles Times
Many of Aron’s truths are so pulverizing in their honesty that they ought to come with a warning, especially for readers new to the gritty realities of recovery.
Rebekah Frumkin,
The Washington Post
... stunning. I came to it as a reader with extensive experience with addiction and codependency; reading it was like a first sip of water after a 20-mile run in the heat. Aron is not only a master of metaphor but also a brilliant researcher who braids the story of a romantic life lost to codependency with a variety of other texts.
David Canfield,
Entertainment Weekly
If 'co-dependency is a girl’s song,' as Nina Renata Aron writes, her scorching memoir proves it can be a beautiful one, too.
Sarah Gilmartin,
The Irish Times (IRE)
... brilliant.