Girl Walks Out of a Bar – By Lisa Smith
Girl Walks Out of a Bar is a candid portrait of alcoholism through the lens of gritty New York realism. Beneath the façade of success lies the reality of addiction.
Girl Walks Out of a Bar explores Smith’s formative years, her decade of alcohol and drug abuse, divorce, and her road to recovery. In this darkly comic and wrenchingly honest story, Smith describes how her circumstances conspired with her predisposition to depression and self-medication in an environment ripe for addiction to flourish. When her close-knit group of high-achieving friends celebrate the end of their grueling workdays with alcohol-fueled nights at the city’s clubs and summer weekends partying at the beach the feel-good times can spiral wildly out of control.
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Reviews:
Gracie K.
*****
This book was impossible to put down. I have a special family member who is now four years sober. After about 20 years of rehabs. It was like a happy ending to know the author stayed sober after her first go around. I appreciated the honesty and what goes through an alcoholics head during their illness. I also appreciated that it wasn’t a woe is me nauseating sob story. Just enough to understand her disease. I could read more.
Charpar
*****
Ok I’ve been an alcoholic for a long time but I wasn’t THAT bad until a year ago. I.slipped into the mindset that drinking at 4 is ok, then 2, then noon and then whenever the heck i.wanted to. I really enjoyed this book, today I’m 5 days sober for the fiftieth time but this one will stick, I can feel it. I like that she wrote candidly about going to detox (i.also did) and she stuck with it! If I read this before during or just after detox I believe I wouldn’t have relapsed as many times. This is one of favorite get clean and sober memoirs and I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT
Magpie
*****
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Why does this sound like my life, or at least what it used to be. Thanks God for AA and my sponsor. So glad I don’t live tlike this anymore.
Lynette K.
Life was a nightmare. Glad I woke up and found recovery. Ladies, you don’t have top live like this if you all dont want to. Check yourself.
Lakeisha W
I listened to this book on Audible. It was amazing! I listened to it while driving, running, getting ready for work, etc. and every time I turned it off I had that good just-coming-out-of-a-meeting feeling. It’s like an AA meeting for wherever you go. I’ve listened to it all the way through twice now. I highly recommend it <3
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I am not alone. I am so blessed to have found other Women in recovery.