Barnett\'s prose style is brassy and cleareyed, with echoes of Anne Lamott.
She has written for a variety of local and national publications, including The Huffington Post , Seattle Magazine , and Grist ..
She now covers addiction, housing, poverty, and drug policy at her blog, The C Is for Crank .
She started her career at The Texas Observer and went on to work as a reporter and news editor for The Austin Chronicle , Seattle Weekly , and The Stranger .
Barnett is an award-winning political reporter.
About author(s): Erica C.
At a time when opioid addiction is a national epidemic and one in twelve Americans suffers from alcohol abuse disorder, Quitter is indispensable reading for our age and an ultimately hopeful story of Barnett\'s own hard-fought path to sobriety.
With remarkably brave and vulnerable writing, Barnett expands on her personal story to confront the dire state of addiction in America, the rise of alcoholism in American women in the last century, and the lack of rehabilitation options available to addicts.
She found that the terms other alcoholics used to describe the trajectory of their addiction--rock bottom and moment of clarity--and the mottos touted by Alcoholics Anonymous, such as let go and let God--didn\'t correspond to her experience and could actually be detrimental.
It is always possible, she learned, to go lower than your lowest point.
Rock bottom, Erica Barnett writes, is a lie.
By the time she was in her late thirties, Barnett had quit and relapsed again and again, but found herself far from rehabilitated.
Volatile relationships, blackouts, and unsuccessful stints in detox defined her life, with the bottles she hid throughout her apartment and offices acting as both her tormentors and closest friends.
In her late twenties, her addiction became inescapable.
Barnett had her first sip of alcohol when she was thirteen, and she quickly developed a taste for Drinking to oblivion with her friends. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) A startlingly frank Memoir of one woman\'s struggles with alcoholism and recovery, with essential new insights into addiction and treatment Erica C. --Beth Macy, The New York Times Book Review Emotionally devastating and self-aware, this cautionary tale about substance abuse is a worthy heir to Cat Marnell\'s How to Murder Your Life .
Barnett\'s prose style is brassy and cleareyed, with echoes of Anne Lamott
