A review by karenpcheng
Smacked: A Story of White-Collar Ambition, Addiction, and Tragedy by Eilene Zimmerman

3.0

Smacked is part-memoir, part journalistic account of drug addiction in white collar America. This book was born out of Elene Zimmerman’s reeling, after finding her ex-husband - a successful lawyer and father of her two teenagers - dead of a drug overdose. His history of addiction was a complete shock to her, and she goes into full investigative mode trying to reconstruct what led him to this point of tragedy. I listened to this book on audio (read by the author and nicely done) and it was quick and informative, even if it did feel a bit like I was intrusively digging around in a deceased person’s stuff.