Drunk Mom Drunk Mom

Drunk Mom

A Memoir

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Publisher Description

Three years after giving up drink, Jowita Bydlowska found herself throwing back a glass of champagne like it was ginger ale. "It's a special occasion," she said to her boyfriend. And indeed it was. It was a party celebrating the birth of their first child. It also marked Jowita's immediate, full-blown return to alcoholism and all that entails for a new mother who is at first determined to keep her problem a secret. 

Her trips to liquor stores are in-and-out missions. Perhaps she's being paranoid, but she thinks people tend to notice the stroller. Walking home, she stays behind buildings, in alleyways, taking discreet sips from a bottle she's stored in the diaper bag. She know she's become a villain: a mother who drinks; a mother who endangers her child. She drinks to forget this. And then the trouble really starts.

Jowita Bydlowska's memoir of her relapse into addiction is an extraordinary achievement. The writing is raw and immediate. It places you in the moment--saddened, appalled, nerve-wracked, but never able to look away or stop turning the pages. With brutal honesty, Bydlowska takes us through the binges and blackouts, the self-deception and less successful attempts to deceive others, the humiliations and extraordinary risk-taking. She shines a light on the endless hunger of wanting just one more drink, and one more again, while dealing with motherhood, anxiety, depression--and rehab.

Her struggle to regain her sobriety is recorded in the same unsentimental, unsparing, sometimes grimly comic way. But the happy outcome is evidenced by the existence of this brilliant book: she has lived to tell the tale.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2013
April 23
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
304
Pages
PUBLISHER
Doubleday Canada
SELLER
Penguin Random House Canada
SIZE
6.6
MB

Customer Reviews

Billandbrittney ,

Eye opener

Well written.

Survivorchik ,

Drunk Mom

Worth the read. Very raw and real writing style. 5 stars, Definately highly recommend the book !

Howard Dancyger ,

Drunk mom

A very satisfying read. Personal, honest, and unflinchingly courageous. I feel I learned a lot about what addiction can be like.

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