From your scion of Hollywood royalty–son of Michael Douglas, grandson of Kirk Douglas–a moving, often shocking, ultimately inspiring memoir detailing his battle to regain his dignity, humanity, and place in society after many years of drug abuse and almost eight years in prison.

Cameron Douglas exists into prosperity, privilege, and convenience. His parents are glamorous jet-setters, his dad a superstar, his mom a beautiful socialite, his grandfather a legend. On the surface, his life seems about GOOD WAY Home golden. But by age thirty, he provides taken a hellish dive: he’s become a medication addict, a thief, and–after a DEA medication bust–a convicted medication dealer sentenced to five years in jail, with another five years added to his sentence while incarcerated. Ultimately he will spend two years in solitary, where he manages, nonetheless, to carry fast towards the brutal ethos of jail success . until: he begins to invert his savage change, to understand the emotional turmoil that has tormented him for years, and to prepare for what will be a profoundly demanding, but eventually deeply satisfying and effective, reentry into culture at large.

Sparing nobody in his sphere–least of most himself–Cameron Douglas gives us a raw and unstintingly honest recounting of his harrowing, remarkable, and, in the long run, inspiring life story.