She is a reporter with a poets instincts, an anthropologist of her own soul. When she was as young as seven years old, she began to sneak drinks out of her parents beer and enjoyed the buzz. Download and keep this book for free with a 30 day trial. Possible ex library copy, will have the markings and stickers associated from the library. Much has been written about sarah hepola s book blackout. Sarah took an interest in alcohol at a frighteningly early age. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. Author, sarah hepola, grew up in dallas, tx and attended the same middle and high school my children attend, so if course i was very curious about her and the book.
Sarah hepola is the author of the new york times bestseller blackout. Alcohol was the gasoline of all adventure for sarah hepola. Remembering the things i drank to forget kindle edition by hepola, sarah. Blackout, the debut memoir by salon editor sarah hepola, is one such memoir. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or. Remembering the things i drank to forget sarah hepola. Reviewed in the united kingdom on 21 february 2016. The first time sarah hepola, author of the new memoir blackout. She comes to in the middle of a blackout, having sex with a stranger, leaves the room, then goes on a wild. Why blackout would make a perfect book club choice. Its a memoir of her alcoholismspecifically her propensity to drink to the point of oblivionbut. Author sarah hepola on her new memoir, blackout vogue.
Hepola writes with great candor and honesty about how drinking progressed from a fun part of her life to the point where it was her whole life. Sarah hepolas memoir blackout is an empathetic look at. Spine creases, wear to binding and pages from reading. Remembering the things i drank to forget paperback june 7, 2016. Remembering the things i drank to forget kindle edition. Remembering the things i drank to forget, doesnt escape this happysad fate. This rare bird is the southern belle of literature.
There is a story that i dont really dwell on too much in the book, but. Remembering the things i drank to forget and it is highly deserving of all the accolades it has received. There are those who drink the book club wine, then go happily home to bed. There are plenty of addiction memoirs out there, but this one is top shelf. There is a story that i dont really dwell on too much in the book, but there was a christmas party at the paper and i went to it and i had a. Remembering the things i drank to forget by sarah hepola. Sarah hepola, author of blackout a writer remembers. Remembering the things i drank to forget and the former personal essays editor at salon. Hepola, an editor at salon, explores the causes and consequences of her addiction to alcohol, especially beer. Remembering the things i drank to forget by hepola, sarah isbn. Much has been written about sarah hepolas book blackout. Blackout is a book about drinking and eventual sobriety, but its also an exploration of the fleeting nature of the comfort we all constantly seekcomfort with the self, with others, with the whole maddening, confusing, exhilarating world. Sarah hepola is the author of the bestselling blackout and the upcoming unattached her essays have appeared in the new york times magazine, texas monthly, elle, bloomberg businessweek, the guardian, slate, and salon, where she was a longtime editor.
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