Author Visit: Tom Hansen

In American Junkie, Tom Hansen takes us non-stop into a land of desperate addicts, failed punk bands, brushes with sad fame, and selling drugs during the Seattle grunge years.

It’s a story that maps his heroin addiction, from the promise of a young life to the prison of a mattress, from budding musician to broken down junkie, drowning in syringes and cigarette butts, shooting heroin into wounds the size of softballs, and ultimately, a ride to a hospital for a six-month stay and a painful self-discovery that cuts down to the bone.