Original Sins: A Memoir - Matt Rowland Hill Audiobook

Written by Matt Rowland Hill
Read by Daniel Hawksford
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Harlequin Audio
Release date: July 5, 2022
Duration: 09:42:24

An electrifying debut memoir of a pastor’s son chronicling his loss of faith, his addiction to heroin and our universal quest to find something to believe in.

Matt Rowland Hill had two great loves in his life: Jesus and heroin. The son of an evangelical minister, Hill grew up with an unwavering devotion to the tenets of his parents’ Baptist church. But by high school, he began to experience a crisis of faith. To fill the void, he turned to literature, and then to heroin and cocaine. By his twenties, Hill’s substance abuse escalated into a full-on addiction. As he grew increasingly suicidal, he knew he had to come to terms with both religion and drugs to survive.

Hill’s debut is an extraordinary, gorgeously crafted memoir of faith, family, loss, shame and addiction. But ultimately, Original Sins is a raw portrait of survival—of growing up and learning how to live.

“The story of his life as addict is so harrowing that it is often painfully hard to read, hard to live, too, since at 27 he attempts suicide. Miraculously he survives but is remanded to an inpatient psychiatric ward, and his life becomes an exercise in repeatedly trying to become clean and failing. The book is anything but a failure, though. It’s remarkable–beautifully written and wonderfully insightful. Doubt and faith are twin themes that inform the captivating story and, without doubt, will also captivate readers of this extraordinary memoir.”— Booklist