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Drinking: A Love Story
She called it a love story, because that's how it felt. 🍷 If your drink feels like your safest relationship, this book sees you.
Who it's for
Knapp, a Brown graduate and successful Boston Phoenix columnist, drank for about twenty years while looking like she had it together, and she frames that relationship as a love affair: seductive, comforting, secret and destructive.
Feelings it meets
What it is
Drinking: A Love Story is Caroline Knapp's 1996 memoir about her twenty-year relationship with alcohol, which she describes as a love affair. Knapp, a former Boston Phoenix columnist, drank through her Ivy League education and her career while keeping up an appearance of respectability.
Where to find it
In print (Dial Press); widely available from libraries (Libby/Hoopla) and as an audiobook. Not public domain.
Before you start
Heads up: Past anorexia and alcoholism.
Age: Ages 16+
