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The ten stories in AFTER OPIUM are taught, smart, and wide open windows into deep corners of the human condition. David W. Berner explores how we carry on after kicking habits, shedding obsessions, or losing what we believe we can't live without.

Praise for After Opium...

“These stories weave tales of

connection and broken

bonds, of need and

longing, of glimmering

memory and buried

regrets, all with clear-eyed

affection and the recognition

that to be human is to survive

and shoulder on despite what

we’ve lost. Bravo!”

          - Mary T. Wagner

Author of Running with Stilettos.

"After Opium is a collection of moving stories presenting character sketches that bring a warming illumination to the story we’re living, our human condition."

           - Victor David Giron, Curbside Splendor Publishing and author of Sophomoric Philosophy.

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Also from David W. Berner...

PRAISE FOR  ACCIDENTAL LESSONS...

“A BEAUTIFUL, ELEGANTLY WRITTEN BOOK.”

-Thomas E. Kennedy, Winner of the 2008 National Magazine Award and Author of In the Company of Angels.

“A TERRIFIC MEMOIR.”

-Rick Kogan, The Sunday Papers, WGN Radio, Chicago.

“THE KIND OF BOOK YOU TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT.”

-Eric Jones, BookReview.com.

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Chicago journalist David W. Berner takes the reader inside his own personal journey, telling the story of a tumultuous year of painful endings, new beginnings, and self-discovery.

The author takes a job as a teacher in a public school in a tough, impoverished neighborhood outside Chicago during a difficult year of personal change. What he learns from the students teaches him invaluable lessons about himself, who he is, why he became a journalist in the first place, and reconfirms the belief that we can all find second chances.

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