Smashed: Growing up a Drunk Girl - Koren Zailckas

Smashed: Growing up a drunk girl - Koren Zailckas This novel is an autobiographical account of the authors experiences with growing up and alcohol. I borrowed it off my sister although I wasn't convinced by her raving about how good it was as I'm not really into the hard luck novels that seem to have taken off. But since I had nothing else to read, I started it one day and got hooked on it from then. It follows Koren from a 14 year old being convinced by her friend to taste alcohol for the first time to the time when she graduates from college. She tries to keep her friend Natalie happy by drinking and seems to idolise her, however fragile Natalie ...  Read the complete review

The “true confessions” style of writing seems to have made the move from women’s magazines to books in recent years. But in an effort to make a decent book out of these things, it’s never the simple “I fell in love with my brother” type story you get, but a far more wide reaching tales. There have been many about being abused as a child, either sexually or emotionally. There have been people talking about their sex lives, whether they accepted money for it or not. There are tales of addictions, to more or less any substance going. It is this last category that Koren Zailckas’ “Smashed: Growing up a Drunk Girl” falls into. She marks her history with ...  Read the complete review