cooksbooks 's review for:

Dry by Augusten Burroughs

5.0

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I never though a book about addiction would be something I’d enjoy and I certainly didn’t think it would be funny but in Dry Augusten Burroughs really humanises his experience of alcoholism as well as providing insights into the lives of countless other people battling their own traumas. Through his perspective, it’s suddenly so clear how denial works and how every part of your life becomes consumed through addiction. It also stresses the importance of friendships and surrounding yourself with a network of people who are good for you, how hard it is to cut out those who are toxic and how much harder it is to lose the ones that mean the most.