Thursday, United Nations, and No Devotion vocalist Geoff Rickly released his first book Someone Who Isn’t Me on Chelsea Hodson’s new independent press run Rose Books this week. It’s a novel with memoir-like moments inspired by real events in Geoff’s life, but it’s definitely not a memoir. The crux of the book is that Geoff goes to a clinic in Mexico to participate in a monitored trip on the psychoactive substance ibogaine in order to kick a heroin addiction, and it’s also not a self-help book, nor is it a book about the opioid epidemic. “To me it’s more an ibogaine book,” Geoff said in an interview with GQ, “this fictional-sounding drug that’s actually real even though this is a work of fiction. ‘Opioid epidemic book’ was no...
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