AUSTIN COATS

SPOONS ARE FOR STIRRING COFFEE

An incredibly raw and powerful memoir, a journey through addiction and recovery that will keep you entertained and hooked until the final page is turned.Spoons Are For Stirring Coffee is a comeback story, Austin Coats’ comeback story…and a hell of a story it is. Austin grew up in a middle class neighborhood, raised by a top class family. A high school football injury gave birth to a hole in his soul and he looked to anything and everything to fill that void. When he found prescription pain medication, he stopped looking.Austin’s story begins in a small Arkansas town where he started experimenting with illegal and addictive drugs. He writes about how he suffered from the “disease of more” as a boy, and how it “manifested itself into something destructively profound and entirely uncontrollable.” It’s about the sandy beaches and unforgiving streets of South Florida, where he went to rehab and ended up homeless. His story takes you with him across the wild plains of Africa and explains how three little Kenyan boys taught him something remarkable without ever speaking a word. Coats shares in beautifully written detail his most personal heart breaking trials and tribulations in a fight against his addiction and against himself. You’ll cry for him, laugh with him, and cheer him along as he takes you into the breath taking white-tipped Colorado Rocky Mountains where he got clean, and ultimately found his spiritual voice. His story is about love and family and God. It’s about life and perception; it’s about you and about me, about anyone and everyone. Above all else, Spoons Are For Stirring Coffee is about recovery and redemption.People from all walks of life will find Spoons Are For Stirring Coffee both entertaining and enlightening. It’s a book that will keep you up at night reading, and one that you’ll tell your co-workers about the next morning. If you think all memoirs of addiction are the same…think again.