Running in Circles: A Memoir

At eighteen, Eva Yin was rushed to an emergency room in the San Francisco Bay Area, gravely ill from a blood infection that followed a single missed attempt to inject heroin. Still weak and against medical advice, she left the hospital and headed to New York City, where she soon had no home and was pushed toward prostitution and violence. Her memoir follows a young woman caught in addiction and the way one injection can upend a life. Addiction, she came to understand, can feel like a loop that drags you back to where you started. This is an honest account of that cycle and of one woman's struggle to break free from it.