A darkly funny and frank debut autobiography about one woman's twenty-year struggle with sex, narcotics, and alcohol dependence in the style of Blackout and Permanent Midnight, and what happens when she actually arrives on the other side. Amy Dresner had it all when she grew up in Beverly Hills: a top-notch education, the most expensive summer camps, and even a weekly shopping allowance. Yet at 24, in San Francisco, she started losing he mind because…
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A darkly funny and frank debut autobiography about one woman’s twenty-year struggle with sex, narcotics, and alcohol dependence in the style of Blackout and Permanent Midnight, and what happens when she actually arrives on the other side. Amy Dresner had it all when she grew up in Beverly Hills: a top-notch education, the most expensive summer camps, and even a weekly shopping allowance. Yet at 24, in San Francisco, she started losing he mind because of meth. She was transferred to a Hollywood Boulevard chain gang for two years, collecting syringes as she moved from rehabs and halfway houses, both dealing with sobriety, drug addiction, and already in her forties. In the spirit of Orange Is the New Black and Jerry Stahls Permanent Midnight, Amy Dresners My Fair Junkie is an informative, darkly humorous, and shamelessly frank tale of a person dealing with all types of dependency, reaching rock bottom, and finding a life worth living path.
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A darkly funny and frank debut autobiography about one woman’s twenty-year struggle with sex, narcotics, and alcohol dependence in the style of Blackout and Permanent Midnight, and what happens when she actually arrives on the other side. Amy Dresner had it all when she grew up in Beverly Hills: a top-notch education, the most expensive summer camps, and even a weekly shopping allowance. Yet at 24, in San Francisco, she started losing he mind because of meth. She was transferred to a Hollywood Boulevard chain gang for two years, collecting syringes as she moved from rehabs and halfway houses, both dealing with sobriety, drug addiction, and already in her forties. In the spirit of Orange Is the New Black and Jerry Stahls Permanent Midnight, Amy Dresners My Fair Junkie is an informative, darkly humorous, and shamelessly frank tale of a person dealing with all types of dependency, reaching rock bottom, and finding a life worth living path.
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