“I come from a family forged by tragedies and bound by a remarkable, unbreakable love,” Hunter Biden writes in this deeply moving memoir of addiction, loss, and survival. When he was two years old, Hunter Biden was badly injured in a car accident that killed his mother and baby sister. In 2015, he suffered the devastating loss of his beloved big brother, Beau, who died of brain cancer at the age of forty-six. These hardships were compounded by the collapse of his marriage and a years-long battle with drug and alcohol addiction. In Beautiful Things, Hunter recounts his descent into substance abuse and his tortuous path to sobriety. The story ends with where Hunter is today—a sober married man with a new baby, finally able to appreciate the beautiful things in life.

Biografie

Hunter Biden, geboren 1970, ist das zweite Kind des Präsidenten der USA aus erster Ehe. Seine Mutter Neilia und Schwester Naomi starben 1972 bei einem Verkehrsunfall, sein Bruder Beau 2015 an einem Hirntumor. Hunter Biden studierte in Yale und arbeitet hauptsächlich als Rechtsanwalt. Nach jahrelanger Drogenabhängigkeit lebt Hunter Biden heute zusammen mit seiner Frau Melissa und dem gemeinsamen Sohn Beau in Kalifornien, wo er sich unter anderem der Malerei widmet.