Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood - Hardcover

Zailckas, Koren

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670033766 ISBN 13: 9780670033768

Publisher: Viking Adult, 2005

Synopsis

A twenty-four-year-old survivor of alcoholism recounts her journey from teen experimentation to binge drinking, a process during which she endured depression, rage, sexual exploitation, and troubled relationships before making the decision to heal, in a personal memoir that also offers insight into youth alcohol abuse. 50,000 first printing.

About this title

From the Author:

In the past decade alone, girls have closed the gender gap in terms of drinking. I wrote "Smashed" because girls are drinking as much, and as early, as boys for the first time in history, because there has been a threefold increase in the number of women who get drunk at least ten times a month, and because a 2001 study showed 40 percent of college girls binge drink. When you factor in increased rates of depression, suicide, alcohol poisoning, and sexual assault, plus emerging research that suggests women who drink have greater chances of liver disease, reproductive disorders, and brain abnormalities, the consequences of alcohol abuse are far heavier for girls than boys.

From the Back Cover:

"Gripping... one of the best accounts of addiction, the college experience, or even what it means to be an average teenage girl in America. A."
–Entertainment Weekly

Bookstores are flooded with boozy bios by former girls gone wild. This one rises to the top.
—People

Poised and elegiac... Smashed goes down with a slow, genteel burn.
—The New York Times Book Review

A mortifyingly credible story.
—The New York Times

Brilliant and horrifying.
—The Baltimore Sun

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0670033766
• ISBN 13: 9780670033768
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368