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A 23-year-old looks back on the horrifying details of her drinking problem, which began when she was 14 and didn't end until a blackout seven years later, when she was out of college and working in Manhattan, jolted her out of it. Koren Zailckas intends her book to be not only a record of her own torments, but a cautionary tale for other teenagers, providing grim statistics about underage drinking and its results.
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"[T]his raw, eye-opening memoir will deepen readers' understanding of American culture and perhaps their own lives." - (Booklist, 12/15/04)
"As astonishingly revealing debut...Riveting, with a powerful message for parents of teenaged girls." - (Kirkus, 11/1/04)
"What's impressive about Zailckas as a writer is that, at times, she can evoke such sudden emotion out of these quiet observations. And what's impressive about Zailckas as a young woman is not necessarily that she quit drinking at 23--though good for her. It's that she had the wisdom to realize that unhappiness wasn't something that happened to her, but rather something of her own making, and that she needed to eliminate whatever it was that was preventing her from having the life she wanted. In that sense, SMASHED, despite its marketing as a cautionary tale..., is a typical coming-of-age memo - Henry E. F. Gordillo (Nation, 3/7/05)
"Zailckas is unsparingly insightful and acutely aware of what drinking can and does do to girls....Her book is deeply moving, written in poetic, nuanced prose that never obscures the dangerous truths she seeks to reveal." - (Publishers Weekly, 12/6/04)
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