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A clean mess : a memoir of sobriety after a lifetime of being numb / Tiffany Jenkins.
"After a brutal struggle with opioid addiction that landed her four months in prison, Tiffany was ready for a fresh start. What she didn't expect was just how fast life would happen once she was out of prison. She went from felon to married, sober mom of three in just two years. But life doesn't stop happening; her marriage collapsed a few years later, a crisis that forced her reckoning with the foundations of her mental health and sobriety. As she forged her future, Tiffany learned to feel emotions and live life without numbing herself with drugs. She had to figure out how to be a mom, how to have a career, how to be married, how to get divorced, how to be an adult, and how to have feelings all at the same time. With dark humor and page-turning storytelling, she shows how she learned to survive when her crutches and band aids were taken away from her, and the gratitude and peace she found on the other side of addiction"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780593232637 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 292 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Harmony, [2025]
- Copyright: ©2025
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| Subject: | Jenkins, Tiffany (Motivational speaker) Recovering addicts > United States > Biography. Women comedians > United States > Biography. |
| Genre: | Biographies. Autobiographies. Personal narratives. |
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The bestselling author of High Achiever shows how she learned to survive when her crutches and band aids were taken away?â?and she found gratitude and peace on the other side of addiction. - Baker & Taylor
"After a brutal struggle with opioid addiction that landed her four months in prison, Tiffany was ready for a fresh start. What she didn't expect was just how fast life would happen once she was out of prison. She went from felon to married, sober mom ofthree in just two years. But life doesn't stop happening; her marriage collapsed a few years later, a crisis that forced her reckoning with the foundations of her mental health and sobriety. As she forged her future, Tiffany learned to feel emotions and live life without numbing herself with drugs. She had to figure out how to be a mom, how to have a career, how to be married, how to get divorced, how to be an adult, and how to have feelings all at the same time. With dark humor and page-turning storytelling, she shows how she learned to survive when her crutches and band aids were taken away from her, and the gratitude and peace she found on the other side of addiction"-- - Random House, Inc.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠The bestselling author of High Achiever chronicles life after addictionâthe raw, the dark, and the hilariousâfrom setting out with nothing but a backpack to discovering her marriage was built on a shakier foundation than sheâd ever imagined to staying sober when life fell apart.
âTiffany Jenkins illustrates that recovery is not just about sobriety, but about learning to live and feel again. Her compelling story is a testament to the power of resilience, humor, and hope.ââSarah Levy, author of Drinking Games
A Clean Mess opens with the moment that changed everything. Tiffany is about to go on stage when she receives an odd message from her husband: âHey Babe, some of the guys here are making some stupid decisions. Not me. But I just wanted to let you know in case you heard it from some of the other wives.â By the end of the night, Tiffany knew her life would never be the same.
This wasnât the first time she had to start over. After the opioid addiction and jail sentence that she chronicled in her bestselling memoir, High Achiever, Tiffany was ready for a fresh start. A chance to try life again, this time without drugs coursing through her veins. In A Clean Mess, she takes us back to those early days of recovery, and the whirlwind that she entered the moment she was out of prison. In just two years, she went from inmate to married and sober mom of three.
Told with humor and honesty, A Clean Mess is Tiffany Jenkinsâs story of how she learned to live and feel for the first time without numbing herself with drugsâand how she discovered inner reserves of strength she didnât know she had. From her tentative first days of sobriety, to seeing two pink lines on a pregnancy test weeks later, to navigating anxiety, a new marriage, and motherhood at the same time, to surviving betrayal and divorce, Jenkins shows how she got through it all when her crutches and Band-Aids were taken away from her. An inspiring memoir that reads like fiction, A Clean Mess is a book that will buoy anyone seeking a life raft in hard times.
