Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood is by Koren Zailckas. This is a true story of a young girl's descent into alcoholism and her ultimate struggle for recovery. At 24, after a decade of drinking, blackouts, brushes with comas, date rape, and suicide Koren tells her tale. Into her gut-wrenching memoir she weaves statistics from various studies on alcoholism among the young. Her chilling story is, unfortunately, all too commonplace. The language is laced with extreme profanity, and the situations she finds herself in are graphically described. It is not a read for the faint of heart, but it is a tale that young women need to hear, especially since drinking among young women is on the rise nationally. A brutal tale that I'm afraid all too many will relate to.
Ratings: 12th grade - 10 out of 10 - P (profanity) - AC (mature thematic content) - S (non-graphic sexual references).
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