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She is a reporter with a poets instincts, an anthropologist of her own soul. After drinking too much, the author is horsing around with her friends kids when she. Drinking felt like freedom, part of her birthright as a strong, enlightened twenty. Remembering the things i drank to forget has garnered tons of acclaim. The memoir focuses on hepolas alcoholism and ultimate recovery, written. She is a sensitive writer about female friendship, and a jolly one about journalism. Sarah hepola s blackout is the best kind of memoir. Were not finished writing the sarah hepola biography yet. The memoir details hepolas lifelong relationship with alcohol, using equal parts gutwrenching honesty and wry, biting humor. Sarah hepola, new york times bestselling author of blackout underwood is a master storyteller. She often blacked out, waking up with a blank space where four hours should be. Three kids on a sevenyear shoot produce one heck of an homage. Sarah took an interest in alcohol at a frighteningly early age. Remembering the things i drank to forget, which comes out june 23.
Sometimes people drift in and out of your life, and the real agony is fighting it. Jun 17, 2015 the nadir of hepolas book happens in paris, while shes on a magazine assignment. I had had so many blackouts and thought i could identify with the author. Her story opens with a paris magazine assignment, which is, she assures.
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Blackout is a book about drinking and eventual sobriety, but its also an exploration of the fleeting nature of the comfort we all constantly seek comfort with the self, with others, with the whole maddening. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Opinion kavanaugh and the blackout theory the new york. If you love sarah, join us on facebook and well keep you updated on hepolas progress. Sarah hepola is the personal essays editor at, where she reads peoples secrets for a living. If you have tid bits about sarah hepolas life that would be useful in writing the biography, email us. It was a union wrought by an early and traumatic sexual experience and, as such, separating intimacy from the lubricant that is alcohol proved trickythough maybe not as difficult as separating her writing life from her drinking life. June 21, 2015 sarah hepolas memoir blackout is filled with stories that are both funny and tragic about how shed drink to excess, and then try to piece it all together the following day. A stunning new exhibit of portraits at sfmoma aims to find out.
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