Sweet Tooth – Tim Anderson Free Audiobook

Written by Tim Anderson
Read by MacLeod Andrews
Format: M4A
Unabridged

This is a great book and well narrated. It’s a very funny, and poignant, memoir of growing up and coming of age in the late 1980s – early 1990s. There are loads of references to the music of that time.

I couldn’t recommend it more.

Publisher’s Summary

What’s a sweets-loving young boy growing up gay in North Carolina in the ’80s supposed to think when he’s diagnosed with type-1 diabetes? That God is punishing him, naturally.

This was, after all, when gay-hating Jesse Helms was his senator, AIDS was still the boogeyman, and no one was saying, “It gets better.” And if stealing a copy of a gay porno magazine from the newsagent was a sin, then surely what the men inside were doing to one another was much worse.

Sweet Tooth is Tim Anderson’s uproarious memoir of life after his hormones and blood sugar both went berserk at the age of 15. With Morrissey and The Smiths as the soundtrack, Anderson self-deprecatingly recalls love affairs with vests and donuts, first crushes, coming out, and inaugural trips to gay bars. What emerges is the story of a young man trying to build a future that won’t involve crippling loneliness or losing a foot to his disease – and maybe even one that, no matter how unpredictable, can still be pretty sweet.