A review by lsantoski
Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp

5.0

I loved this book, and I'm not entirely sure I can explain why. A lot of memoirs by alcoholics follow the basic thread of "here's my background, here are the terrible things I did when I was drinking, here's how I realized I needed to stop," and Knapp's book does all of those things, but in a way that felt fresh and new. Her insights are so real and raw and interesting, and she's such a talented writer, and she skips forwards and backwards in her story to highlight different points. It was just really beautiful and poignant and bittersweet, particularly with the knowledge that she died at 42, less than 10 years after publishing this book.