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Alcoholics -- Canada -- Biography.
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Drunk mom : a memoir...
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Drunk mom : a memoir / Jowita Bydlowska.
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Bydlowska, Jowita.
New York : Penguin Books, 2014.
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Bydlowska, Jowita.
Alcoholics -- Canada -- Biography.
Mothers -- Canada -- Biography.
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9780143126508 (paperback) :
0143126504 (paperback)
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308 pages ; 20 cm
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A night at the museum -- The next day -- I'm a drunk -- Motherhood -- Bedtime -- Birthday -- Summer -- Harm reduction -- On the beach -- Regroup -- How to get rid of bottles -- Rats and cocaine -- Cosmopolitan -- Why -- At the doctor's -- Better now -- On the go -- New home -- At the counselor's -- Morning after -- Intervention -- Home for the holidays -- Research -- Intake -- On my way -- Checking in -- Inside -- Post-traumatic stress disorders -- Learning -- The community -- Rehab hocus-pocus -- Alex -- Graduation -- Again -- A girl walks into a snake -- Group work -- I drink alone -- One -- Lost and found -- The moment -- This part of the story -- Up the hill -- Wednesday -- Sade -- Sober -- Archeology -- Chris -- Falling.
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Three years after giving up drinking, Jowita Bydlowska found herself throwing back a glass of champagne like it was ginger ale. It was a special occasion: a party celebrating the birth of her first child. It also marked Bydlowska's immediate, full-blown return to crippling alcoholism. In the gritty and sometimes grimly comic tradition of the bestselling memoirs Lit by Mary Karr and Smashed by Koren Zailckas, Drunk Mom is Bydlowska's account of the ways substance abuse took control of her life--the binges and blackouts, the humiliations, the extraordinary risk-taking--as well as her fight toward recovery as a young mother. This courageous memoir brilliantly shines a light on the twisted logic of an addicted mind and the powerful, transformative love of one's child. Ultimately it gives hope, especially to those struggling in the same way.
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