Drunk mom
Subtitle: a memoir
By: Jowita Bydlowska
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780143126508
Subjects: Alcoholics; Biography; Mothers
Description: Three years after giving up drinking, Jowita Bydlowska found herself throwing back a glass of champagne like it was ginger ale. It was a special occasion: a party celebrating the birth of her first child. It also marked Bydlowska's immediate, full-blown return to crippling alcoholism. In the gritty and sometimes grimly comic tradition of the bestselling memoirs Lit by Mary Karr and Smashed by Koren Zailckas, Drunk Mom is Bydlowska's account of the ways substance abuse took control of her life- the binges and blackouts, the humiliations, the extraordinary risk-taking- as well as her fight toward recovery as a young mother. This courageous memoir brilliantly shines a light on the twisted logic of an addicted mind and the powerful, transformative love of one's child. Ultimately it gives hope, especially to those struggling in the same way.
Notes: "First published in Canada by Doubleday Canada ... 2013"--Title page verso.