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Mohr's prose is lean and scrappy--a featherweight boxer that packs a punch.\" --Los Angeles TimesWith vulnerability, grit, and hard-won humor, acclaimed novelist Joshua Mohr returns with his first book-length work of non-fiction, a raw and big-hearted chronicle of substance abuse, relapse, and family compassion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSirens provides a harrowing and complicated account of Mohr's years of substance abuse and culpability. 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