Girl walks out of a bar : a memoir

ISBN: 9781590793213
ISBN: 1590793218
ISBN: 9781590793121
ISBN: 1590793129
Physical Description: print ix, 277 pages ; 23 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : SelectBooks, Inc., [2016]

Summary: Girl Walks Out of a Bar explores Smith's formative years, her decade of alcohol and drug abuse, divorce, and her road to recovery. In this darkly comic and wrenchingly honest story, Smith describes how her circumstances conspired with her predisposition to depression and self-medication in an environment ripe for addiction to flourish. When her close-knit group of high-achieving friends celebrate the end of their grueling workdays with alcohol-fueled nights at the city's clubs and summer weekends partying at the beach the feel-good times can spiral wildly out of control. Girl Walks Out of a Bar is a candid portrait of alcoholism through the lens of gritty New York realism. Beneath the fa©ʹade of success lies the reality of addiction.--Amazon.com.