Over the Edge is a poignant, humorous, heart-breaking, and triumphant look at what it takes to hustle in the modern age. Forget the cliché drug-fueled, alcoholic rock star drama you've seen over and over again. Stephen Kelly is addicted to self-destruction. After a near-fatal heart attack, Stephen was unsatisfied with his life. Something had to give. Set against the backdrop of a mid-life career change into the gleaming stainless steel blood sport of professional cooking, Stephen weaves a fast-paced collection of stories from a haunted past into a journey from self-destruction to self-deconstruction and the search for meaning that changed his life. With biting prose and unflinching objectivity, Stephen leaves no stone unturned in calling out his own contradicting nature while learning to thrive in the competitive, high-octane, egomaniacal kitchen battlefield. From the shrewdly crafted public images and subtle nuance of restaurant politics, to the outright wars in the heat of service and dark nights in the company of old ghosts, Over the Edge pulls back the curtain on the modern hustle; finding the balance between endless hours and the insane demands of ambition and being a good man.