The Recovering
by Leslie Jamison
Part memoir, part cultural history of addiction and the writers who romanticized it. Long and erudite; a serious book about whether recovery stories can be as interesting as drinking stories.
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you are a reader who wants depth, literary history and personal truth together.
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you want brevity.
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Three things you will actually use
- The myth of the drunk genius is a myth.
- Recovery is a shared story.
- Ordinary is the point.
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Read the chapters on the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Our verdict
Erudite and personal.
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