The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A book cover. A photograph of a woman sitting on the floor occupies the lower half of the cover. Her knees are pulled up to her chest and she is looking slightly off to the side. She is in a plain white box room that looks like it has been drawn in pencil.
At the top of the cover, a review reads:
“”With deep, sympathetic characters and beautiful prose, ‘Clean’ cuts to the heart. It’s poignant and real. I can’t stop thinking about it.” -Lisa McMann, bestselling author of the Wake trilogy” in very small black writing.
The title of the book “Clean” is in large, yellow capitals across the upper centre of the cover, directly above the photograph of the woman.
Directly below the woman, the author’s name “by Amy Reed, author of Beautiful” in small black writing. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Disordered Eating
• Rape
• Sexual Assault
• Domestic Violence
• Child Abuse and Neglect
• Substance Abuse
• Alcoholism
• Self Harm
• Emotional Abuse

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Summary:

You’re probably wondering how I ended up here. I’m still wondering the same thing.

Olivia, Kelly, Christopher, Jason, and Eva have one thing in common: They’re addicts. Addicts who have hit rock bottom and been stuck together in rehab to face their problems, face sobriety, and face themselves. None of them wants to be there. None of them wants to confront the truths about their pasts. And they certainly don’t want to share their darkest secrets and most desperate fears with a room of strangers. But they’ll all have to deal with themselves—and one another—if they want to learn how to live. Because when you get that high, there’s nowhere to go but down, down, down.

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Notes:

Reed has written and/or contributed to 40 books in her career. Her first novel, Beautiful, was published in 2009.

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Archivist Comments:

I had this tagged as LGBTQ+ originally and I can’t remember why so it’s TBC for now.

I tried to get all the trigger warnings, but please just let me know if I’ve missed some!

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