Smashed Story of a Drunken Girlhood

Name: Smashed Story of a Drunken Girlhood
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ISBN: 9780143036470

ISBN-10: 0143036475

ISBN-13: 9780143036470

Edition: 2006

Authors: Koren Zailckas

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Garnering a vast amount of attention from young people and parents, and from book buyers across the country, Smashedbecame a media sensation and a New York Timesbestseller. Eye- opening and utterly gripping, Koren Zailckass story is that of thousands of girls like her who are not alcoholicsyetbut who routinely use booze as a shortcut to courage and a stand-in for good judgment. With one stiff sip of Southern Comfort at the age of fourteen, Zailckas is initiated into the world of drinking. From then on, she will drink faithfully, fanatically. In high school, her experimentation will lead to a stomach pumping. In college, her excess will give way to a pattern of self-poisoning that will grow…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/31/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.06" wide x 7.78" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.550

Nour Al'Deen is a native of Virginia who moved to the Sunshine State, FL, with her husband, Ahmad Ballout, continues her creative writing in fiction, and non-fiction. She enjoys cooking, reading, writing, crocheting, and sewing. In addition, she volunteers for Habitat for Humanity, Obama for America Campaign, and arts/crafts project for the community.



Preface


Initiation


First Taste


First Waste


First Offense


Coma Girl


The Usual


All You Can Drink


Greek Mythology


Excess


You're Pretty When I'm Drunk


Love in the Time of Liquor


Beer Tears


Abuse


Ascent and Descent


Liquid Heart


The End Has No End


The Still-to-Learn