Overview
Eilene Zimmerman's ex-husband, Peter, had it all: He was a partner at a prestigious law firm, lived in a $2 million house by the beach, and had two great kids. Maintaining a friendly relationship, Eilene and Peter talked and saw each other frequently. But a few years after their divorce she started noticing erratic behavior: absenteeism, weight loss, constant exhaustion and sickness. Peter explained it away as stress from the pressures of his job, but Eilene couldn't shake the feeling that something else was wrong. Months later, when she finds him dead, she goes on a journey to investigate how a man she thought she knew had become a drug addict, and how other successful people do too.
The result is a moving, intimate, and revealing look at Peter's downward spiral as his secretive drug use ramps up, its devastating impact on his family, and how it forces Zimmerman to reconceive her own life. Although centered on her story, this memoir also takes a look at the drug epidemic among high-powered professionals and its impact on other families, showing that addicts look like all of us, and that money, education, and privilege are not protection against addiction.
This book title, Smacked (A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy), ISBN: 9780525511007, by Eilene Zimmerman, published by Random House Publishing Group (February 4, 2020) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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