SOMEBODY'S REAL LIFE STORY
This book is fiction, but it's someone's life story. The opioid crisis is real, and untold numbers of people die from opioid overdoses every day. I happen to live in a county that led our state in opioid overdoses, and that's not something to be proud of.
This book was a captivating story. If you like legal thrillers, this is sort of like that. Reading this book, you're taken on a ride through the life of a hurting family, but a family that decides to take that pain and do something with it, rather than just let it eat at them. How things might have turned out is left to your imagination, but it's a good story.
A big-city attorney finds himself in a much smaller arena, but the stakes are much higher than any of his other cases...it's personath this time. His sister died from a heroin overdose. He gets the bright idea to sue the company that manufactured a pain medication his sister had become addicted to after a car accident. This was certainly out of his league. His cases were high-power cases with a whole firm of attorneys to back him up. He's on his own now...or is he? Help comes from unexpected places and the trial takes some unexpected turns, but at the end of the day, what really matters? Is it the money, or is it just proving a point? Is it just the principle of the thing, and how far can he go and expect to succeed? Success is definitely something he knows he can't count on, but at end of the day, family is still family and he has more friends than he thought he did.
This isn't a typical read for me but it was a good one.