As chronicled in his sleeper-hit memoir, Straight Pepper Diet, one fateful summer night, Joseph Naus, a young LA lawyer, went out to have just a couple of drinks. He awoke the next morning handcuffed to a hospital bed and charged with attempted murder …. and then it got worse. The Palsgraf Revelation begins where Straight Pepper Diet left off. Joseph survived the initial blast of the nuclear bomb he dropped on his own life, but if he wants to become more than a shocking cautionary tale, he must now learn to live with the devastating fallout. He’s an active 12-Stepper, sober and free of sex-addiction for two years, but he’s got big problems. A disbarred lawyer, a two-strike felon, and permanently labeled a threat to society, he’s seemingly unemployable and un-dateable. He’s smoking a pack a day and can’t quit; and, he’s running out of money, speeding down the freeway to homelessness, unable to locate the offramp to “The Road of Happy Destiny.” The Palsgraf Revelation is more than an addiction and recovery memoir. It’s a documentation of American society leading up to and during the Great Recession. It’s a love story, a forgiveness story, a story of struggling to make a living, a story of hitting bottom in recovery and reluctantly and ever-critically seeking “outside help.”The Palsgraf Revelation is a story of acceptance and spiritual truth that reveals—in Joseph’s engaging style—the remedy for any ruined life. "Joseph's follow-up memoir, The Palsgraf Revelation, is as open, honest and raw as his first. His prose skillfully conjures the addict mind. An incredible read." -Rich Roll, host of Rich Roll Podcast and Author of Finding Ultra A searing, uninhibited account of an addict's long and winding road to recovery. ... Naus' tone is affable, enthusiastic, and conversational, and his narrative flows like a series of chats over coffee with a good friend whose life has hit the skids. Also appealing are his descriptions of Southern California, where the Santa Monica weather is considered "God-kissed meteorological perfection." ... - Kirkus Reviews "Welcome to the most fascinating and truthful memoir of the life IN recovery. Beautifully written, painfully vulnerable and unabashedly realistic. A must must must read." - Amy Dresner, Author of My Fair Junkie "Joseph Naus has the rare ability to crack your heart open like an egg with his deeply evocative work. To read The Palsgraf Revelation is to be submerged in the tender, painstaking beauty of what it takes to climb from the darkest chasm of an addiction bottom to find a spiritually meaningful life." - Heidi Ferrer, GirltoMom.com As of 2020, Joseph W. Naus lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Theresa and cat, Bogey. He's still clean, sober, "abstinent" and "smober" and an active 12-Stepper. Joseph has yet to secure his status as a PGA Tour pro. And he continues to write. On Death, Four Short Stories (memoir) is slated for release late 2020.