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An addiction memoir bigger than its addict

ADDICTION MEMOIR IS A GENRE WITH SO many tropes—sordid tales of excess and despair tidily resolved by a redemptive ending—that it’s diffcult to imagine how a writer could do anything fresh with it. Yet that’s the remarkable feat Leslie Jamison manages in

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