With his nickname, Dirty Jersey, tattooed on the inside of his left
forearm, James Salant wanted everyone to know he was a tough guy.
At the age of eighteen, after one too many run-ins with the cops
for drug possession, he left his upper-middle-class home in
Princeton, New Jersey, for a stint at a rehab facility in
Riverside, California. Instead of getting clean, he spent his year
there shooting crystal meth and living as a petty criminal among
not-so-petty ones until a near psychotic episode (among other
things) convinced him to clean up.
In stark prose infused with heartbreaking insight, wicked humor,
and complete veracity, Salant provides graphic descriptions of life
on crystal meth -- the incredible sex drive, the paranoia, the
cravings. He details the slang, the scams, and the psychoses, and
weaves them into a narrative that is breathtakingly honest and
authentic. Salant grapples with his attraction to the thuggish
life, eschewing easy answers -- his parents, both therapists, were
loving and supportive, and his family's subtle dysfunctions typical
of almost any American family.
Exploring the allure and effects of the least understood drug of
our time, "Leaving Dirty Jersey" is that rarity among memoirs -- a
compulsively readable, superbly told story that is shocking
precisely because it could happen to almost anyone.
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