{"id":406,"date":"2024-06-24T22:23:41","date_gmt":"2024-06-24T22:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mustafatutbrown.com\/?page_id=406"},"modified":"2026-03-27T18:25:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T18:25:12","slug":"about-the-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mustafatutbrown.com\/index.php\/about-the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.elementor-406 .elementor-element.elementor-element-342d281 > .elementor-container > .elementor-column > .elementor-widget-wrap{align-content:center;align-items:center;}.elementor-406 .elementor-element.elementor-element-342d281{overflow:hidden;transition:background 0.3s, border 0.3s, border-radius 0.3s, box-shadow 0.3s;padding:200px 0px 80px 0px;}.elementor-406 .elementor-element.elementor-element-342d281:not(.elementor-motion-effects-element-type-background), .elementor-406 .elementor-element.elementor-element-342d281 > .elementor-motion-effects-container > 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100vw, 782px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-369a791 elementor-section-content-middle elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"369a791\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5956771\" data-id=\"5956771\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-20ff7a9 elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-elementskit-heading\" data-id=\"20ff7a9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" 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data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For twenty years, this book kept getting interrupted \u2014 by births and funerals, marriages and divorces, launches and evictions, breakdowns and second chances. Every chapter was lived before it was written.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Addict<\/strong> is a part memoir, part field guide. It moves from a childhood in a rural Caribbean village, to teenage exile in Canada, to decades of serial entrepreneurship \u2014 shipping, moving, caf\u00e9s, construction, consulting, six trucks on the road, and more skeletons in the closet than doors to hold them.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Along the way, Tut-Brown doesn\u2019t spare himself. He writes about:<\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The addiction to success<\/strong> \u2013 chasing the next deal like a drug, long after the joy is gone.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Businesses that boomed, then burned<\/strong> \u2013 restaurants locked overnight, trucks wrecked at 3 a.m., credit scores torched.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Love, loss, and glass-house rules<\/strong> \u2013 divorce, grief, blended families, and the four lines taped to his fridge.<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>The day his body shut down<\/strong> \u2013 the \u201cwhale\u201d that swallowed him and forced him to learn to walk again, one small step and one honest sentence at a time.<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Threaded through it all are \u201csigns\u201d \u2014 short, punchy vignettes and sayings drawn from ordinary life: a low-fuel light, a spoiled fridge, a gym full of people scrolling instead of sweating, a phone that suddenly needs a passcode.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Each sign is a small warning, a quiet blessing, or a hard truth about work, money, love, and becoming who you actually are.<\/span><\/p><h2><span style=\"color: #000000;\">WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR<\/span><\/h2><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This isn\u2019t just for entrepreneurs (though it may save a few).<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>This book <\/strong>is for anyone who has ever:<\/span><\/p><ul><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Worked three jobs and still felt broke in every sense of the word<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Looked at a relationship and thought, <em>The glove just doesn\u2019t fit<\/em><\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Called a friend at midnight and said, \u201cI don\u2019t know what I\u2019m doing.\u201d<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Stared at a blank page \u2014 or a blank future \u2014 and wished for a manual<\/span><\/li><li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Felt the quiet ache of depression and kept going anyway<\/span><\/li><\/ul><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It\u2019s written <strong>for immigrants and strivers, parents and partners, burned-out professionals, side-hustlers, ministers, mentors, and the people who hold everyone else together<\/strong> while quietly falling apart.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you\u2019ve ever suspected that life <em>does<\/em> give you signs, you just didn\u2019t know how to read them. 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