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Drinking: A Love Story
by Caroline Knapp
I feel like when a lot of us hear the word “alcoholic” our minds jump straight to the image of a Frank Gallagher type character stumbling down the street with a brown paper bag. In this memoir Knapp was able to brilliantly articulate what it’s like being a “high-functioning alcoholic” living a so-called “double life” and how the disease is so insidious that many people don’t know it’s there until long after the fact. She drives the point that this disease could happen to anyone, even those who appear to have their life together.
I wanted to give this a better rating because I have the utmost respect for anyone who is able to share such a brutally honest account of their struggles. I just found this to be a little too repetitive and longwinded at times, and jumping back and forth between time periods made it difficult to follow her timeline.
It’s heartbreaking that she lost a battle to lung cancer so shortly after beating her battle against alcohol. The light I find in this is that she at least continues to make an impact with her memoir, helping readers understand their own relationship with alcohol or that of their loved ones with addictions.
I wanted to give this a better rating because I have the utmost respect for anyone who is able to share such a brutally honest account of their struggles. I just found this to be a little too repetitive and longwinded at times, and jumping back and forth between time periods made it difficult to follow her timeline.
It’s heartbreaking that she lost a battle to lung cancer so shortly after beating her battle against alcohol. The light I find in this is that she at least continues to make an impact with her memoir, helping readers understand their own relationship with alcohol or that of their loved ones with addictions.