Scars for Future Wars - by Jordan Jongema (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

"In Scars for Future Wars, Jongema transforms raw memory into literature. What could have been a conventional recovery story becomes instead a brutal meditation on choice, consequence, and the thin line between life and oblivion. His prose is unsparing yet lyrical, pulling the reader into skin-ripping visions as nightmarish as they are revealing. Utterly caked in both madness and a new form of sickening, descriptive beauty - it is a stark reminder of what it means to fight for existence itself."

I drank until my body gave out and my mind tore itself to apocalyptic shreds - a nail-covered crawl through madness, mind-splitting voices in the dark, and a stare-down with alcoholic death that left marks I'll never shake.

This book isn't recovery propaganda. It's not meant to inspire or pat you on the back. It's the gore, the disturbing filth, the trembling nights where I didn't know if I'd wake up again. The kind of sh!t you'd rather keep buried in a psychiatrist's notes.

Delirium Tremens comes from a chemical imbalance. Getting there comes by choice. Every laceration carries a choice. Some I regret. Some I'd make again. That's the truth.