A gritty tribute to the women who stick around too long.” -David Canfield, Entertainment Weekly Aron details the spiral, of screaming matches and vomit and things thrown across rooms. “If ‘co-dependency is a girl’s song,’ as Nina Renata Aron writes, her scorching memoir proves it can be a beautiful one, too. “A raw and eloquently unflinching memoir.” -Kirkus Reviews “In Nina Renata Aron’s scorching, unvarnished memoir, an addiction story gets spun from the perspective of the helpless partner, the lover too stuck in a dangerous dynamic to find her way out.” -Entertainment Weekly Aron writes in gripping prose about the thrills and dangers of her own substance use and relationship with K-their weak-kneed passion and wolfish needs, as well as her guilt-ridden enabling and savior-complex optimism.” -San Francisco Chronicle Praise for Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls is a blazing, bighearted book that illuminates and adds nuance to the messy tethers between femininity, enabling, and love.
She shifts between visceral, ferocious accounts of her affair with K and introspective analyses of the part she plays in his addictions, as well as defining moments in the history of codependency, from the temperance movement to the formation of Al-Anon to more recent research in the psychology of addiction. Writing in prose at once unflinching and acrobatic, Aron delivers a piercing memoir of romance and addiction, drawing on intimate anecdotes as well as academic research to crack open the long-feminized and overlooked phenomenon of codependency. How can she break this pattern? If she leaves K, has she failed him? After an adolescence marred by family trauma and addiction, Nina can’t help but feel responsible for those suffering around her. Even as his addiction deepens, she stays, convinced she is the one who can get him sober. Soon after they get together, K starts using again, and years of relapses and broken promises follow. “The disease I have is loving him.” Their love affair is dramatic, urgent, overwhelming-an intoxicating antidote to the long, lonely days of early motherhood. “The disease he has is addiction,” Nina Renata Aron writes of her boyfriend, K. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PARADE
Aron lights a path through the darkness of her past toward a better future.”- Los Angeles Times About Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s SoulsĪ scorching memoir of a love affair with an addict, weaving personal reckoning with psychology and history to understand the nature of addiction, codependency, and our appetite for obsessive love
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