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Drunk Mom: A Memoir

Drunk Mom: A Memoir

Bydlowska, Jowita

Paperback

Biographies GeneralAddiction & Recovery

ISBN10: 0143126504
ISBN13: 9780143126508
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: May 27 2014
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
An intense, complex and disturbing story, bravely and beautifully told. I read Drunk Mom with my jaw on the floor, which doesn't happen to me that often. --Lena Dunham

Three years after giving up drinking, Jowita Bydlowska found herself throwing back a glass of champagne like it was ginger ale. It was a special occasion: a party celebrating the birth of her first child. It also marked Bydlowska's immediate, full-blown return to crippling alcoholism.

In the gritty and sometimes grimly comic tradition of the bestselling memoirs Lit by Mary Karr and Smashed by Koren Zailckas, Drunk Mom is Bydlowska's account of the ways substance abuse took control of her life--the binges and blackouts, the humiliations, the extraordinary risk-taking--as well as her fight toward recovery as a young mother. This courageous memoir brilliantly shines a light on the twisted logic of an addicted mind and the powerful, transformative love of one's child. Ultimately it gives hope, especially to those struggling in the same way.

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