South of Heaven: A Boyhood Broken

For readers of The Basketball Diaries, Girl, Interrupted, Beautiful Boy, and Just Kids: A memoir of growing up, soaring, shattering, and recovering

Growing up in SoCal in the early 2010s, Nolan Trowe spent his early teenage years living largely on his own, exiled from his family, skateboarding and smoking and roaming the streets with friends. But one by one, he lost many of those same friends to suicide and overdose, while others vanished into different lives. At 22, while cliff jumping from...