Introducing Shooting Up by Jonathan Tepper
Some childhoods unfold on playgrounds and soccer fields. Jonathan Tepper’s unfolded in syringe-littered parks, abandoned apartments, and the margins of Madrid’s most notorious heroin slum. In Shooting Up: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Addiction, Tepper tells the story of growing up in San Blas in the mid-1980s, where his American missionary parents chose to live and work among people most of society had written off: addicts, former criminals, and the desperately ill at the height of the AIDS crisis. While other children played after school, Jonathan handed out tracts to heroin users, befriended recovering junkies twice his age, and…
