Nina Renata Aron, GOOD MORNING, DESTROYER OF MEN'S SOULS

Nina Renata Aron, GOOD MORNING, DESTROYER OF MEN'S SOULS

Nina: It is really personal and emotional. It's a memoir. It's sort of laced with cultural history. It's meant to be the first literary memoir about codependency. I grew up in a household with a family member who struggled with addiction. Then it's about largely how that played out in my romantic relationships, subsequent relationships. I had an affair when I was married and young mother with an ex-boyfriend who was a hardcore drug addict who was in and out of sobriety for many years. We were madly, desperately in love. I know a lot of people don't have personal experience with that kind of hardcore addiction. It's also broadly about expectations that women place on ourselves and that throughout history that have been placed upon us culturally and how much of ourselves to give in love, whether it's in any kind of relationship, in motherhood, in our family relationships. Hopefully, it has broader reach beyond just those enjoy a good gritty addiction memoir. I always was reading addiction memoirs my whole life. I never understood why none were written by people who lived in those households and suffered through that. There are resources out there for people who have that experience, but I always was looking for -- I wanted this book, so I had to write it.