Long Past Stopping: A Memoir
&#x201C;Thank god Oran Canfield came out of this alive and thank double-god he emerged with his sense of humor. So many weirdball characters and harrowing situations that you&#x2019;d be hard-pressed to make up better ones. This is the kind of life story that begs to be told.&#x201D; (Beth Lisick author of Helping Me Help Myself)&#x201C;Memoirs about dysfunctional families can be funny, and this book is hilarious&#x2026; [Canfield] delivers newspapers on a unicycle, wins third place in a juggling competition and experiments with drugs in a Mexican police cruiser. His descriptions are snappy and his side commentary&#x2026;[makes] you laugh out loud.&#x201D; (Associated Press)&#x201C;An oddly compelling and appealing account of a life truly stranger than fiction.&#x201D; (Booklist)&#x201C;The son of Chicken Soup for the Soul creator Jack Canfield debuts with a memoir of a peripatetic West Coast childhood and subsequent struggle with drug addiction, told in a series of humorous vignettes&#x2026; The author&#x2019;s deadpan irony is&#x2026;brilliant&#x2026;&#x201D; (Kirkus Reviews)