Memoir, 2026

Before sobriety came the lies.
Before the lies came the drugs.
Before the drugs came the loneliness.
By all rights, Owen Calongne should be dead.

For almost twenty years, Owen buried himself in drugs and alcohol, surviving everything from arrests to overdoses with the desperate belief that there would always be one more chance to get his life back together.

Along the way, he found himself surrounded by people the rest of the world had mostly forgotten. Addicts, criminals, gangsters, dealers, friends, lovers, sons, daughters. They got sober together and relapsed together. They lied to one another, stole from one another, forgave one another. And for a while, they were all they had.

Most of them are dead now.

The Bones of My Ghosts is an ode to those who didn’t survive, a love letter to the family who never stopped caring, and a meditation on the guilt of being alive to tell the story.