Product Overview
A powerful, brave, and moving memoir of onewoman's struggle with alcoholism, a disease thataffects fifteen million Americans eachyear.
It happened this way: I fell in loveand then, because love was destroying everything Icared about, I had to fall out. So beginsCaroline Knapp's searing account of her twenty-yearlove affair with alcohol, the liquid armor she used to protect herself from life's painfulrealities: family tension, social insecurity, fear ofintimacy, her parents' deaths. Though she was fortwenty years a functioning alcoholic, few wouldhave suspected that beneath her attractive, IvyLeague veneer, this successful professional was ayoung woman who had to drink herself to sleep everynight. She thought alcohol gave her the courage toface life. It took her twenty years to admit thatdrinking only made it more difficult tobear.
Written with warmth, candor, and wisdom, hereis one woman's story of addiction and recovery--astory that begins in despair and loneliness, butends with the hope that within each of us lies thestrength to survive in the world withoutanesthesia.
