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Average rating3.2
From earliest experimentation to habitual excess to full-blown abuse, twenty-four-year-old Koren Zailckas leads us through her experience of a terrifying trend among young girls, exploring how binge drinking becomes routine, how it becomes "the usual." With the stylistic freshness of a poet and the dramatic gifts of a novelist, Zailckas describes her first sip at fourteen, alcohol poisoning at sixteen, a blacked-out sexual experience at nineteen, total disorientation after waking up in an unfamiliar New York City apartment at twenty-two, when she realized she had to stop, and all the depression, rage, troubled friendships, and sputtering romantic connections in between.
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This book was difficult to rate - In one sense i could relate to alot of this ladies relationship with Alcohol BUT i couldnt understand how she refuses to admit she is/was an Alcoholic! She is without a doubt in denile.
That said though i loved her style of writing, it was funny in places and blunt, also quite poetic and does include some interesting stats on Alcohol and its terrible effects.
Worth a read if you need a refresher on why NOT to drink to excesses lol