Drunk Mom: A Memoir

Drunk Mom: A Memoir

<b><i>“</i>An intense, complex and disturbing story, bravely and beautifully told.  I read <i>Drunk Mom </i>with my jaw on the floor, which doesn’t happen to me that often." - Lena Dunham</b><br /> <p>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.</p><p><br />In the gritty and sometimes grimly comic tradition of the bestselling memoirs <i>Lit </i>by Mary Karr and <i>Smashed </i>by Koren Zailckas, <i>Drunk Mom </i>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.</p>