Torn Together: One Family's Journey Through Addiction

About Our Book:

Torn Together is a memoir, written by recovering alcoholic and addict husband, Scott Magnuson, and codependent wife, Shaaren Pine.

Torn Together chronicles Scott's addiction as his illness infects everyone around him, his eventual treatment, and the recovery process the whole family undertakes.

It is also the story of The Argonaut, one of revitalized H Street, NE's first restaurants, the struggle to get off the ground, rebuild after a terrible fire, and to keep going as the family is falling apart.

About The New Authors:

Author, Scott Magnuson has been doing two things longer than most:
Working in bars & restaurants, and drinking & drugging.
An addict at 14, Scott got his first job in a bar - an industry that would allow him to focus on his first true loves, drugs and alcohol.It was a good life, for a while.

Evading the law, skirting the consequences of his actions, and leaving a trail of destruction in his wake. His world finally started crashing down around him 18 years later, and he was on the verge of losing his family, his business, and himself.
That was July 12, 2011.

Now, with several years of recovery under his belt, Scott is continuing his career in the restaurant industry, and is dedicated to helping others out of addiction's darkness.
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Shaaren Pine has been learning the ins and outs of the restaurant business since starting her first restaurant job in 2005. Now, as a manager and business owner, and with help from her Earlham College education, she is committed to bridging the gap between business and community, and changing restaurant culture.

Shaaren is passionate about adoptee rights, and advocating for the families of addicts. She writes about her adoption from a social justice perspective, and about addiction through a spousal lens.Together, Scott and Shaaren run two businesses, have created a non-profit*

They serve on two boards, and are raising their daughter, Ara.
The family lives in Washington, DC, and this is their first book.

"Sometimes a family together can weather any storm, and they beat the Storm of Addiction, . . . Together"