Smashed
Story of a Drunken Girlhood
About this book
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
- 616.86/1/092 b
- alcohol use
- biography
- drinking of alcoholic beverages
- girls
- girls--alcohol use
- girls--alcohol use--united states
- girls, biography
- recovering alcoholics
- recovering alcoholics--united states--biography
- women
- women alcoholics
- women alcoholics--united states--biography
- women, alcohol use
- women--alcohol use
- women--alcohol use--united states
- women, united states, biography
- young women
- zailckas, koren