Books for a Better Life *A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* For Sarah Hepola, alcohol was "the gasoline of all adventure." She spent her evenings at cocktail parties and dark bars where she proudly stayed till last call.
She lives in Dallas..
She has worked as a music critic, travel writer, film reviewer, sex blogger, beauty columnist, and a high school English teacher.
Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine , New Republic , Glamour , Slate , Guardian , and Morning News .
About the Author: Sarah Hepola is the personal essays editor at Salon.com.
It\'s about giving up the thing you cherish most--but getting yourself back in return.
Her tale will resonate with anyone who has been forced to reinvent or struggled in the face of necessary change.
Shining a light into her blackouts, she discovers the person she buried, as well as the confidence, intimacy, and creativity she once believed came only from a bottle.
A memoir of unblinking honesty and poignant, laugh-out-loud humor, BLACKOUT is the story of a woman stumbling into a new kind of adventure--the sober life she never wanted.
The fuel she thought she needed was draining her spirit instead.
Publicly, she covered her shame with self-deprecating jokes, and her career flourished, but as the blackouts accumulated, she could no longer avoid a sinking truth.
What did I say last night? How did I meet that guy? She apologized for Things she couldn\'t remember doing, as though she were cleaning up after an evil twin.
Mornings became detective work on her own life.
She often blacked out, waking up with a blank space where four hours should be.
But there was a price.
Drinking felt like freedom, part of her birthright as a strong, enlightened twenty-first-century woman.
Books for a Better Life *A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* For Sarah Hepola, alcohol was "the gasoline of all adventure." She spent her evenings at cocktail parties and dark bars where she proudly stayed till last call
