Smashed

Description:

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.

subjects: Girls,  Women alcoholics,  Alcohol use,  Biography,  Women,  Recovering alcoholics,  Young women,  Girls, biography,  Women, alcohol use,  Women, united states, biography,  Drinking of alcoholic beverages,  Zailckas, koren,  Women alcoholics--united states--biography,  Women--alcohol use,  Women--alcohol use--united states,  Girls--alcohol use,  Girls--alcohol use--united states,  Recovering alcoholics--united states--biography,  616.86/1/092 b

People: Koren Zailckas

Places: United States