Susan Juby is known as the bestselling author of the Alice, I Think series, but before she penned her warm and hilarious novels, she dealt with addiction at young age. At 13, she turned to alcohol to get her through adolescence at a new school. She then started smoking pot, and by sixteen was doing cocaine. By 20, she was on the road to recovery and this book is a painful but often funny memoir about those turbulent years. Juby also interviews other recovering addicts and alcoholics and looks at how the situation has changed for young people with addictions today. An honest, witty and candid book.
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