Meeting Suffering with Boundless Love
In the shadows of Madrid’s most notorious drug slum, an American missionary family takes root among heroin addicts and builds an unlikely church. Shooting Up is Jonathan Tepper’s searing memoir of growing up in San Blas, where playgrounds were strewn with syringes and his closest friends were recovering addicts twice his age.
When Elliott and Mary Tepper arrive in 1985 with their four young sons, San Blas is the epicenter of Europe’s heroin epidemic. While other children play soccer, Jonathan befriends bank robbers and former prostitutes. His heroes are not athletes, but men like Raúl and…
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