Author: David Sheff

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Boy explores the transformation of Jarvis Jay Masters who has become one of America’s most inspiring Buddhist practitioners while locked in a cell on death row. Jarvis Jay Masters’s early life was a horror story whose outline we know too well. Born in Long Beach, California, his house was filled with crack, alcohol, physical abuse, and men … crack, alcohol, physical abuse, and men who paid his mother for sex. He and his siblings were split up and sent to foster care when he was five, and he progressed quickly to…

A #1 New York Times bestseller that inspired the critically acclaimed movie starring Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet: A journalist recounts his son’s devastating descent into drug and alcohol abuse — as well as its wrenching effects on their family. “A must-read” (Booklist).