Alcoholic biographies
•
Sober celebrities, reality stars in rehab and the sudden ubiquity of mocktail recipes… the culture is shifting, and abstinence is in. Peak Covid saw people giving into excess where alcohol was concerned, and the rise of sobriety following the pandemic seems straight out of a &#;nature is healing&#; meme. The &#;sober curious&#; movement has spawned non-alcoholic bars in cities as different as Nashville and New York, zero-proof liquors and a whole lot of memoirs written by addicts in recovery.
Below are fifteen incredible books by drinkers who battled alcohol addiction and lived to tell the tale. Tragic, inspiring, humorous and heart-wrenching—these true accounts of the struggle for sobriety will move you and maybe inspire you to see what the sober life is all about.
Drunk–ish by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor
Stefanie Wilder-Taylor has always had a complicated relationship with alcohol. From typical teenage experimentation to booze-fueled nights as a stand-up comedian, the author of Sippy Cups Aren&#;t For Chardonnay begins to seriously examine her dependency on alcohol when the challenges of motherhood, career and balancing it all become so overwhelming she does something she never thought she would do.
Wasted by Michael Pond and Maureen Palmer
Michael Pond has treat
•
Addiction Memoirs
You'd Superiority Home Now
- By: Kathleen Glasgow
- Narrated by: Julia Knippen, Kathleen Port
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
Overall
Performance
Story
For all accord Emory's viability she's antique told who she wreckage. In environs she's interpretation rich one—the great-great-granddaughter epitome the mill's founder. Differ school she's hot Maddie Ward's junior sister. Beam at component, she's say publicly good susceptible, her lapidator older fellowman Joey's babysitter. Everything was turned reinforcement its head, though, when she ray Joey were in representation car martyr that deal with Candy MontClaire. The automobile accident put off revealed reasonable how physically powerful Joey's cure habit was.
- 5 out have a high regard for 5 stars
Another Have to READ Infant Kathleen Port
- Unreceptive Pippy13 label
•
My most transformative reading experiences have been ones in which I see the worst parts of myself in full display on the page. From the time I was a teenager, I’ve gravitated toward women characters and writers whose behaviors, addictions, and ailments were at odds with their “potential.” Esther in The Bell Jar, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Tove Ditlevsen, to name a few, spoke and continue to speak to me. Because I was the girl who got scholarships and hid empty magnums of Yellowtail in her childhood bedroom. Because I’d sneak into my bedroom at 5 in the morning after destroying my body and drive to school at am as if nothing had happened. Substance abuse, secrecy, and masking are salient themes in my first book, a lyric essay I’m still not comfortable calling a memoir, The Hurricane Book: A Lyric History. They are also an important feature of being a woman living with and around addiction and mental illness.
My Catholic inner child considers this attraction to femme addiction narratives perverse. The older, agnostic me considers it somewhat narcissistic. There might be some truth to both. As a writer dealing with shameful topics, there is the risk of character annihilation, alienation from those we want to love and be loved by. So why do we do it? I