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Drunk Mom: A Memoir | Jowita Bydlowska
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Three years after giving up drink, Jowita Bydlowska found herself throwing back a glass of champagne like it was ginger ale. "It's a special occasion," she said to her boyfriend. And indeed it was. It was a party celebrating the birth of their first child. It also marked Jowita's immediate, full-blown return to alcoholism and all that entails for a new mother who is at first determined to keep her problem a secret. Her trips to liquor stores are in-and-out missions. Perhaps she's being paranoid, but she thinks people tend to notice the stroller. Walking home, she stays behind buildings, in alleyways, taking discreet sips from a bottle she's stored in the diaper bag. She know she's become a villain: a mother who drinks; a mother who endangers her child. She drinks to forget this. And then the trouble really starts. Jowita Bydlowska's memoir of her relapse into addiction is an extraordinary achievement. The writing is raw and immediate. It places you in the moment--saddened, appalled, nerve-wracked, but never able to look away or stop turning the pages. With brutal honesty, Bydlowska takes us through the binges and blackouts, the self-deception and less successful attempts to deceive others, the humiliations and extraordinary risk-taking. She shines a light on the endless hunger of wanting just one more drink, and one more again, while dealing with motherhood, anxiety, depression--and rehab. Her struggle to regain her sobriety is recorded in the same unsentimental, unsparing, sometimes grimly comic way. But the happy outcome is evidenced by the existence of this brilliant book: she has lived to tell the tale.
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Reagan
Drunk Mom: A Memoir | Jowita Bydlowska
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The library is back open! And I‘m on vacation! I have been feeling so stressed and really overwhelmed so looking forward to the week off. I‘m half done or close to being done 4 books and just starting the ragged. Just want to read and knit and sleep and try not to worry.

MicheleinPhilly Enjoy your week! I‘m just coming to the end of mine and it helped my mood IMMENSELY. 4y
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whatsthEStorey
Drunk Mom: A Memoir | Jowita Bydlowska
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Mehso-so

This book did a lot right. It‘s an extremely raw memoir about a new mom struggling with alcoholism. Her writing captures the highs, lows, blackouts, desperation & guilt so well you feel it with her, even her really shit decisions. This book focuses on a very short period of severe drinking in the author‘s life & it was written not long after she experienced it. I think the book would‘ve benefited from another year or two of wisdom & perspective.

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Amiable
Drunk Mom: A Memoir | Jowita Bydlowska
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Memoir of a young mother‘s lapse into addiction after the birth of her son, and her yearlong struggle to regain her sobriety once again. 3 stars

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readingjedi
Drunk Mom: A Memoir | Jowita Bydlowska

Don't know how to get the photo, too tipsy to find the hash tags but feeling expansive so wanna join in ... 😁

My avatar is myself and my zippety zap of a daughter. We were attending an event in Hull, the UK City of Culture for 2017. She'd just been dancing with drags queens to disco classics. Then we watched the gay ballroom world champions dance. Much fun.

My username is obvious. I read and I am a Jedi.

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