Model Citizen

The intimate gorgeous garish confessions of Joshua Mohr—writer father alcoholic addict. Her teeth marks in the wood are some of my favorite things. Every now and again she rips the pick out of my hand and tosses it inside the guitar . . . I hold it over my head hole down shaking it back and forth the pick rattling around in there. And as it ricochets from side to side I always think about pills. Maybe the pick has turned into oxy. Or Norco codeine Demerol. Maybe it’s a pill and when it falls out I can gobble it up.. After years of hard-won sobriety while rebuilding a life with his wife and young daughter thirty-five-year-old Joshua Mohr suffers a stroke—his third it turns out— which uncovers a heart condition requiring surgery. Which requires fentanyl one of his myriad drugs of choice. This forced “freelapse” should fix his heart but what will it do to his sobriety? And what if it doesn’t work?. Told in stunning surreal time-hopping vignettes Model Citizen is a raw revealing portrait of an addict. Mohr shines a harsh spotlight into all corners of his life throwing the wild joys tragedies embarrassments and adventures of his past into bold relief.. Pulsing with humanity and humor revealing the immediacy of an addict climbing out of the murky pit of his past Model Citizen is a darkly beautiful incisive confession.