Youth

by Charles James Hogarth

First published 2018

Caleb wanders the city's barren streets, his only companion the bottles he uses to numb his pain. Adrift with no family, job, or home, he sinks deeper into isolation and despair. As his downward spiral accelerates, Caleb must confront the ghosts of his past and the grim realities of his present to find any hope of a future worth living.

Genres: fiction, addiction, contemporary, adult-fiction, 21st-century

Vibes: dark, emotional, intimate, thought-provoking

Tropes: downward-spiral, redemption, self-discovery

Setting: City

Period: 21st-century

444 pages · Paperback · Independently Published

Content warnings: addiction, depression, mental-illness

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