Girl Walks Out of a Bar Girl Walks Out of a Bar

Girl Walks Out of a Bar

A Memoir

    • 4.6 • 202 Ratings
    • $14.99

Publisher Description

Lisa Smith was a bright, young lawyer at a prestigious firm in NYC in the early nineties when alcoholism started to take over her life. What was once a way of escaping her insecurity and negativity became a means of coping with the anxiety and stress of an impossible workload. Girl Walks Out of a Bar is Smith's darkly comic and wrenchingly honest story of her formative years, the decade of alcohol and drug abuse, divorce, and her road to recovery. Smith describes how her spiraling circumstances conspired with her predisposition to depression and self-medication, nurturing an environment ripe for addiction to flourish. Girl Walks Out of a Bar is a candid portrait of alcoholism through the lens of gritty New York realism. Beneath the façade of success lies the reality of addiction.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2016
June 7
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
288
Pages
PUBLISHER
SelectBooks
SELLER
Chicago Review Press, Inc. DBA Independent Publishers Group
SIZE
2.2
MB

Customer Reviews

IMLP140.6 ,

FANTASTIC!

This is one of the best books on using/recovery I have read. I laughed, rolled my eyes, and cringed while reading about many of my old tricks while using. Bravo, Lisa!

anotherwomanforpeace ,

Thank you for sharing

Sending so much love to you for your memoir. It helped me immensely on my healing journey. Your life and words resonate with me like I was listening to a soul mate talk to me. Thank you so very much for sharing!!!

hauteheather ,

Overwhelmed by how good this book is

I loved this memoir. Chilling, propulsive, and devastatingly honest, brought to life with sharp mid-2000s NYC detail. Highly recommend!

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