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I enjoyed this but shit it was bleak.
I mean I don‘t know why that surprised me given the subject, but it was so much darker than I expected. When I finally learned Mabel‘s fate I was so taken aback.
Honestly made my previous read, Anna Karenina, look like #whitegirlproblems. Which, to be fair, it is.

Koren's memoir of her use of alcohol to cope with crippling social anxiety is well-written and often poetic. She came from a loving, financially comfortable family. Until she started drinking to the point of blacking out, she doesn't seem to have experienced any particular trauma. So I kept thinking, #whitegirlproblems.