Hunter Biden's Memoir: 7 Takeaways From 'Beautiful Things'

[Budi]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hunter-bidens-memoir-7-takeaways-120126766.html

Hunter Biden's Memoir: 7 Takeaways From 'Beautiful Things'

Hunter Biden at his art studio in Los Angeles, Nov. 1, 2019. (Elizabeth Weinberg/The New York Times)

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Hunter Biden doesn’t beat around the bush in his new memoir, “Beautiful Things,” which comes out on April 6.

“I’m a 51-year-old father who helped raise three beautiful daughters,” writes President Joe Biden’s younger son, who now has a year-old son of his own, in the prologue.

“I’ve bought crack cocaine on the streets of Washington, D.C., and cooked up my own inside a hotel bungalow in Los Angeles. I’ve been so desperate for a drink that I couldn’t make the one-block walk between a liquor store and my apartment without uncapping the bottle to take a swig.

In the last five years alone, my two-decades-long marriage has dissolved, guns have been put in my face, and at one point I dropped clean off the grid, living in $59-a-night Super 8 motels off I-95 while scaring my family even more than myself.”

**The book is equal parts family saga, grief narrative and addict’s howl.
Here is what readers will learn.

He remembers the accident that killed his mother and sister.cont...

His romantic relationship with Beau’s widow stemmed from ‘grasping for the love we had both lost.’cont...

While his father was vice president, Biden spent a month in a Washington apartment bingeing on vodka.cont...

He purchased crack from a homeless addict who later moved in with him. cont..

Biden doesn’t make excuses for his addiction but describes feeling ‘alone in a crowd.’cont...

When it comes to Ukraine, Biden’s account is as dry as toast.cont..

He credits his wife, Melissa Cohen, for his sobriety.cont..
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I will be buying & reading this book by Hunter Biden ~

[tulipsandroses]

1. I'm definitely interested in reading it. I still need to get Rep Dean's book- her son is also in

recovery.
I am always so immensely proud of democrats. Meanwhile trump minions were making Hunter's struggles a joke. So many families know all too well, the struggles of dealing with a loved one with a substance abuse problem. Including my family. I don't know if there is anything that tests your love the way addiction does.
To be able to love your loved one through it, I commend President Biden, Rep Dean and all families fighting for their loved ones to get through the storm of addiction.

[Karadeniz]

2. Sounds like it's worth reading.

[underpants]

3. Sounds pretty brutal

I mean full of truth and un afraid

[UTUSN]

4. Gripping. The wingnuts will (continue to) mock but will only show how *small* they are. And

his father's humanity is epic.


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.... His father, who was then vice president, arrived at his home and said, “I know you’re not fine, Hunter. You need help.” Hunter Biden recalls: “He never let me forget that all was not lost. He never abandoned me, never shunned me, never judged me, no matter how bad things got — and believe me, from there they would get much, much worse.” ….

“Once you decide that you’re the bad person everyone thinks you’ve become, it’s hard to find the good guy you once were,” Biden writes. “Eventually, I quit looking for him: I decided I wasn’t the person everybody who loved me thought I was anymore.” ….

… In the next chapter, we see Joe Biden chasing his son down the driveway after a family intervention: “He grabbed me, swung me around and hugged me. He held me tight in the dark and cried for the longest time.” ....

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[Budi]

5. He speaks to most every person & family in the nation.

Truth.

[dmr]

6. I'm glad it's finally coming out. I've had it on order since last August.

I give him a lot of credit, and respect for finding his way back to peace and happiness.

[Indykatie]

7. Both the Biden Sons Are Very Handsome and the Daughter is Beautiful n/t