Smashed: Story Of A Drunken Girlhood
(Koren Zailckas)
What can shyness and introvertness do to adolescence? This
is the story of Koren Zailckas whose introvertness gets her into a love
affair with alcohol. She first started to drink at 14 and this
continued till she was 23. Her complete surrender to drinking
also becomes the reason for her to lose all her close friends; though
in its spirit, she manages to get more outgoing and making a more
gregarious version of herself.
In this autobiography, she describes the numerous parties,
insignificant relationships and blackouts all on the face of the hold
of alcohol on her.Koren's relationship with alcohol continue through
her college life at Syracuse University, notorious for its heavy
drinking population.
Koren writes this cautionary autobiography on the hold alcohol can hold
over a person, and how it has been the cause of her sexual
misdemeanours at 19.Join Zailckas in her anger at ad campaigns that
demean women and join in her pride and perception that "alcohol is a
man that has courted us all"
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