Smashed
Subtitle: Story of a Drunken Girlhood
Publisher: Viking Adult; Viking
Published: February 7, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780670033768
Subjects: Sociology; Women; Girls; Alcohol Abuse; Women In The U.S; Women alcoholics; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; United States; Biography/Autobiography; Substance Abuse & Addictions - Alcoholism; Personal Memoirs; Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; Biography; Zailckas, Koren; Alcohol use
First sentence: To THIS DAY, I can't remember when I had my first kiss.
Description: 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.