Drinking A Love Story by Caroline Knapp

Fifteen million Americans a year are plagued with alcoholism. Five million of them are women. Many of them like Caroline Knapp started in their early teens and began to use alcohol as liquid armor a way to protect themselves against the difficult realities of life. In this extraordinarily candid and revealing memoir Knapp offers important insights not only about alcoholism but about life itself and how we learn to cope with it. It was love at first sight. The beads of moisture on a chilled bottl