Memoir Monday

Kasher  in The Rye by Moshe Kasher... Rising young comedian Moshe Kasher is lucky to be alive. He started using drugs when he was just 12. At that point, he had already been in psychoanlysis for 8 years. By the time he was 15, he had been in and out of several mental institutions, drifting from therapy to rehab to arrest to...you get the picture. But Kasher in the Rye is not an "eye opener" to the horrors of addiction. It's a hilarious memoir about the absurdity of it all. When he was a young boy, Kasher's mother took him on a vacation to the West Coast. Well it was more like an abduction. Only not officially. She stole them away from their father and they moved to Oakland , California. That's where the real fun begins, in the war zone of Oakland Public Schools. He was more than just out of control-his mother walked him around on a leash, which he chewed through and ran away.

I read a blurb about this book somewhere that said it was life changing. I'm not sure this really qualifies as life changing, because I haven't actually read it mysefl, and can there really be humor when it comes to drug addiction? But Kasher in the Rye had gotten a lot of positive buzz for it's honest take on the authors addiction and the way he has written about it. Published by Grand Central Publishing back in 2012, it's available at your local bookstore.