Scars for Future Wars - by Jordan Jongema (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Scars for Future Wars: A Memoir

A searing & skin-ripping memoir by Canadian author and musician Jordan Jongema, chronicling his descent through alcoholism, near-death, and the fragile beauty of survival.

For years, Jongema lived between worlds - onstage behind the drum kit and guitar, and offstage in the chaos of addiction that nearly claimed his life. Scars for Future Wars traces his brutal path from blackout drinking and withdrawal psychosis to the hallucinatory horrors of Delirium Tremens, a condition that left him hovering between reality and something far beyond it.

Amid hospital lights and hallucinated hellscapes, Jongema began to rediscover fragments of meaning - through music, through solitude, through the slow reconstruction of a self he thought he'd destroyed. Layered with sharp philosophical reflection and cinematic honesty, Scars for Future Wars confronts the darkest corners of human experience without flinching, yet finds in them the flicker of something sacred.

What begins as a descent into chaos becomes an unfiltered exploration of consciousness and survival - a reckoning with the mind, the body, and the spirit. With the precision of a musician and the honesty of a man stripped of everything, Jongema turns his pain into something luminous.