RaveVol. 1 BrooklynAndersen has done her research on opioids ... what Andersen cannot resurrect, she honors with raw honesty and tremendous care in the telling of this story ... The audience for this book is sizable; many of us have lost a loved one to the opioid crisis, or know someone caught in the grip of addiction. I picked up The Heart and Other Monsters because of the resonance of its subject matter in my own life—I lost a cousin to an accidental fentanyl overdose in 2018, and an aunt to an accidental OxyContin overdose in 2019. What I didn’t know in choosing THAOM was how it would move me to act ... harrowing, beautiful.
