My Fair Junkie: Booktrack Edition My Fair Junkie: Booktrack Edition

My Fair Junkie: Booktrack Edition

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Publisher Description

In the tradition of Blackout and Permanent Midnight, a darkly funny and revealing debut memoir of one woman's twenty-year battle with sex, drugs, and alcohol addiction, and what happens when she finally emerges on the other side.
Growing up in Beverly Hills, Amy Dresner had it all: a top-notch private-school education, the most expensive summer camps, and even a weekly clothing allowance. But at 24, she started dabbling in meth in San Francisco and unleashed a fiendish addiction monster. Soon, if you could snort it, smoke it, or have sex with it, she did.

Thus began a spiral that eventually landed her in the psych ward--and then penniless, divorced, and looking at 240 hours of court-ordered community service. For two years, assigned to a Hollywood Boulevard "chain gang," she swept up syringes (and worse) as she bounced from rehabs to halfway houses, all while struggling with sobriety, sex addiction, and starting over in her forties. In the tradition of Orange Is the New Black and Jerry Stahl's Permanent Midnight, this is an insightful, darkly funny, and shamelessly honest memoir of one woman's battle with all forms of addiction, hitting rock bottom, and forging a path to a life worth living.
*Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration to complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration, so listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
NARRATOR
AD
Amy Dresner
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
07:59
hr min
RELEASED
2019
September 24
PUBLISHER
Hachette Audio
SIZE
467.8
MB

Customer Reviews

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Shock value high- actual value zero

Just unhelpful and really a gross example of a person. You want to read a book on how to explain away your problems by claiming to be mentally ill, and lean the best ways to be horrible to anyone who really cares about you- all why glorifying abusive behavior and shameful sexual acting out?

The title doesn’t make sense either. Who’s fair Junky is she? Seems like anyone who cared for her stayed as far away as possible or was as sick as she was.

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