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Drinking Games

A Memoir

by Sarah Levy
Sarah Levy
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Part memoir and part social critique, Drinking Games is about how one woman drank and lived— and how, for her, the last drink was just the beginning.
On paper, Sarah Levy's life was on track. She was 28, living in New York City, working a great job, and socializing every weekend. But Sarah had a secret: her relationship with alcohol was becoming toxic. And only she could save herself.
Drinking Games explores the role alcohol has in our formative years, and what it means to opt out of a culture completely enmeshed in drinking. It's an examination of what our short-term choices about alcohol do to our long-term selves and how they challenge our ability to be vulnerable enough to discover what we really want in life.
Candid and dynamic, this book speaks to the all-consuming cycle of working hard, playing harder, and trying to look perfect while you're at it. Sarah takes us by the hand through her personal journey with blackouts, dating, relationships, wellness culture, startups, social media, friendship, and self-discovery.
In this intimate and darkly funny memoir, she stumbles through her twenties, explores the impact alcohol has on relationships and identity, and shows us how life's messiest moments can end up being the most profound.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press.

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    January 3, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9781250880611
      • File size: 194397 KB
      • Duration: 06:44:59

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 17, 2022
      “At twenty-eight, I looked like I had it all together,” Levy writes about her destructive relationship with alcohol in her bracing debut. A 16-year-old Levy experienced her first blackout at a house party in suburban New Jersey, which she recalls as “shameful” but also “a bit thrilling.” After a newly single Levy moved to New York City at 22, alcohol was a fixture in her life (“I came to view vodka as an extension of my new personality”), and though the frequency of Levy’s blackouts increased, she didn’t think she had a “real” problem until the nearly 30-year-old author woke up in bed next to her boss’s best friend with no memory of how she’d gotten there. The author’s insightful account of her path to sobriety takes in the full sweep of her experience, from discovering in recovery meetings a sense of community that wasn’t contingent on her job title, to concluding that there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to dealing with addiction: “Twelve-step programs are not the only way to get sober.” Though the narrative can be repetitive, it nevertheless offers equal measures of introspection and hope: “Every day I wake up is an opportunity to start again.” This emotional excavation will inspire anyone navigating addiction.

    • Library Journal

      June 10, 2024

      In this emotional and frank debut memoir, Levy shares the struggles that led her to a reckoning with her relationship with alcohol. She openly discusses blackout nights, waking up without knowing where she was or how she got there, using alcohol to cope with social obligations, and eventually how the decision to find sobriety came about. Levy mentions how she never felt like she had a rock bottom, and her memoir avoids going to the extremely dark places that some recovery books can. What makes this book unique is that it illustrates the struggle of young women who have grown up completely embedded in the world of social media. Levy befriends influencers, works at start-ups, and "curates her feed" by archiving posts that no longer serve purpose to her life or career. This curation puts pressure on (mostly) women to have the perfect persona. An underlying current to Levy's journey to sobriety is how stressful living a life online can be. The author narrates the book with a sincerity that only someone who has lived this experience can bring. VERDICT A deeply personal, highly relevant memoir that details the challenges and hard-won success of a woman who has chosen sobriety.--Katy Hite

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Funding for additional materials was made possible by a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities.