Blackout: Remembering The Things I Drank To Forget

"Where to go when you’re a young woman aching for adventure? To the tavern, if you’re Sarah Hepola. There she became the woman she longed to be: fearless, funny, sexual, tough. Alcohol was “the gasoline of all adventure,” until she was forced to admit that she had flamed out. This funny, confident memoir details how Hepola created a life unfueled by ethanol without disowning the wild woman within."