Sarah took an interest in alcohol at a frighteningly early age. Sarah hepola is the personal essays editor at, where she reads peoples secrets for a living. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Blackout drinkers tend to be the ones who hold their. Remembering the things i drank to forget, doesnt escape this happysad fate. Remembering the things i drank to forget, sarah hepola reveals the ugly side of addiction with humor and honesty. Author sarah hepola on her new memoir, blackout vogue. Remembering things i drank to forget, chronicles her addiction to alcohol with brutal honesty and brilliant humor. In her book, released in june, the author who edits personal essays for discusses her long, both complicated and sometimes devastatingly simple relationship with alcohol. Blackout helped me to understand that what i experienced wasnt unique. The nadir of hepolas book happens in paris, while shes on a magazine assignment. Sarah is the author of the bestselling memoir, blackout remembering the things i drank to forget. The title and the summary on the back cover suggest the book is going to really delve into drinkinginduced blacking outwhich, i learned in the introduction, is caused by the alcohol in your bloodstream shutting down the longtermmemorymaking hippocampus. I had so many good passages marked in this book that i used up a pile of postits.
Her writing is superb, but her emotional insight is even greater. She often blacked out, waking up with a blank space where four hours should be. Sarah hepola, author of a new memoir, hopes to raise awareness about how common it is for young people to black out or experience amensia while drinking. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read blackout. A path from blackout drunkenness to sobriety and self. Remembering the things i drank to forget kindle edition. For sarah hepola, alcohol was the gasoline of all adventure. Sarah hepola is the author of the bestselling blackout and the upcoming unattached. Blackout, the debut memoir by salon editor sarah hepola, is one such memoir. Author, sarah hepola, grew up in dallas, tx and attended the same middle and high school my children attend, so if course i was very curious about her and the book.
Remembering the things i drank to forget, sarah hepola describes several such blackouts in the course of her lifelong relationship with alcohol. It was a problem for sure, but i actually wasnt alone in the experience. Drinking felt like freedom, part of her birthright as a strong, enlightened twenty. A blackout doesnt sting, or stab, or leave a scar when it robs you.
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There is a story that i dont really dwell on too much in the book, but. Remembering the things i drank to forget and the former personal essays editor at salon. Hepolas first taste came when she was just 7 years old sneaking sips of beer. She comes to in the middle of a blackout, having sex with a stranger, leaves the room, then goes on a wild. A new york times bestseller for sarah hepola, alcohol was the gasoline of all adventure.
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Blackout for sarah hepola, alcohol was the gasoline of all adventure. One of the most refreshing and admirable qualities of sarah hepolas debut memoir, blackout. A memoir of unblinking honesty and poignant, laughoutloud humor, blackout is the story of a woman stumbling into a new kind of adventurethe sober life she never wanted. She spent her evenings at cocktail parties and dark bars where she proudly stayed till last call. One of my dream guests of all time sarah hepola shares much more than her amazing story with us today.
From first glance, the book chronicles hepolas decadeslong relationship. Remembering the things i drank to forget and it is highly deserving of all the accolades it has received. Sarah hepola, author of blackout a writer remembers. Hepola is the author of the bestselling memoir blackout. She writes gracefully of blackouts, junk food binges and unnerving sexual encounters. Dallas observeri love a recovery memoir, just in general, but sarah hepolas blackout. Its such a savage thing to lose your memory, but the crazy thing is, it doesnt hurt one bit. Remembering the things i drank to forget sarah hepola. Bracing and heartbreakingly honest, sarah hepolas memoir blackout tears off the bandaid of her alcohol addiction and. Blackout is a book about drinking and eventual sobriety, but its also an exploration of the fleeting nature of the comfort we all constantly seekcomfort with the self, with others, with the whole maddening, confusing, exhilarating world. Blackouts aside, hepolas brand of alcoholism tracks with a way of drinking thats familiar to many of us. One of my dream guests of all time sarah hepola shares much more than her amazing story. Tennis i understood drinking to be the gasoline of all adventure. Sarah hepola drank through her 20s, and didnt slow down in her 30s not even when she blacked out or woke up in strangers beds.
The nadir of hepola s book happens in paris, while shes on a magazine assignment. What its like when alcohol takes over your life huffpost. There are some crucial details missing from sarah hepolas new memoir, blackout but thats the whole point. Her writing has appeared in the new york times magazine, the new republic, glamour, slate, the guardian, and the morning news. Alcohol was the gasoline of all adventure for sarah hepola. Blackout by sarah hepola, read by the author audiobook. Its as lyrically written as a literary novel, as tightly wound as a thriller, as wellresearched as a work of investigative journalism, and as impossible to put down as, well, a cold beer on a hot day. Her writing has appeared in the new york times magazine, new republic, glamour, slate, guardian, and morning news.
Her essays on culture have appeared in the new york times magazine, the new republic, glamour, the guardian, nerve, slate, and the morning news, where she has been a contributing. Remembering the things i drank to forget and it is highly deserving of all the accolades it has. Blackout is sold to the reader under false pretenses. Sarah hepola is the author of the bestselling blackout and the upcoming unattached her essays have appeared in the new york times magazine, texas monthly, elle, bloomberg businessweek, the guardian, slate, and salon, where she was a longtime editor. My addiction to addiction memoirs continues, and blackout was the perfect fix. The book engages universal questions where do i belong. Her essays have appeared in the new york times magazine, texas monthly, elle, bloomberg businessweek, the guardian, slate, and salon, where she was a longtime editor. Her essays on culture have appeared in the new york times magazine, elle, the new republic, glamour, the guardian, slate, the morning news, and salon, where she was a longtime editor.
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