This was a depressing book. It is an account of a father's determination to help his son during his addiction to drugs and his process of recovery. It promted me to relect on how best to prevent this tragedy from happening to my children. Even though this book is in their middle school library, I am not encouraging them to read it until they are in high school. The book contained some technical information that supports the author's view about the permanance of meth addiction that my children might not understand yet. I feel that the book was redundant and could have been shorter.