Unshaming

The author of Drunk Mom continues her “bravely and beautifully told” story of alcohol addiction in this raw, unsparing memoir about shame and relapse.

It’s been over a decade since Jowita published her lightning rod of a memoir on overcoming alcohol addiction as a young mother. Both hailed and criticized for its no-holds-barred transparency, Drunk Mom was—and continues to be—refreshing and revelatory in its gritty exploration of addiction recovery and relapse in the context of new motherhood.

But what happens after the last page is turned, after the “happy ending” of an addiction the world assumes is safely in the rearview? When Jowita relapses after the success of her book, her overwhelming sense is one of shame. In prose that’s by turns harsh and beautiful, tender and devastating, she writes about her ensuing spiral into alcoholism—and the climb back up and out.

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