Angel’s Reviews > Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction > Status Update

I felt a new quality of anguish. Maybe parents feel for every child. Maybe we feel more than we ever knew possible. As I look at my three children, in the diffused gold light that shines unsteadily through the poplar leaves, I feel overfull with the knowledge that for this moment they are safe and happy, which is ultimately all we parents want.

this book is making me incredibly aware that i am someone’s child

—but not Nic. It never gets any easier when he prepares to leave.

story of my life

middle school sucks

this first chapter has already changed my life