Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir
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Girl Walks Out of a Bar explores Smith's formative years, her decade of alcohol and drug abuse, divorce, and her road to recovery. In this darkly comic and wrenchingly honest story, Smith describes how her circumstances conspired with her predisposition to depression and self-medication in an environment ripe for addiction to flourish. When her close-knit group of high-achieving friends celebrate the end of their grueling workdays with alcohol-fueled nights at the city's clubs and summer weekends partying at the beach the feel-good times can spiral wildly out of control. Girl Walks Out of a Bar is a candid portrait of alcoholism through the lens of gritty New York realism. Beneath the façade of success lies the reality of addiction.--Amazon.com
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I found this to be a bit triggering to be honest. Maybe it's just how I'm feeling in my sobriety right now, but glamorous descriptions of glasses of things outside of a meeting? I can do without that. This was my first and probably my last dip into ‘quit lit'.
This was a pretty good listen, but fell down a little at the end. Most of the book was the years leading up to rehab/detox, a little time in rehab/detox, and then the follow-up was a blur. I think I was expecting a little more of her making amends to friends and family, and this seemed to be something she wasn't willing to share. This is someone's real life, and so I don't think the author is obligated to share everything. At the same time, this doesn't stop those choices from detracting from the quality of the reading/listening experience. (The narrator did a nice job.)
