Drinking: A Love Story

Caroline Knapp 1996

Devastation Rating

Ugly Crying
addiction memoir alcoholism women

Our Take

Knapp was a high-functioning alcoholic who wrote about drinking with the precision and tenderness of someone describing a doomed love affair. The book is honest about pleasure — she loved drinking — and that honesty makes the destruction more devastating than any cautionary tale.

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