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"An intense, complex and disturbing story, bravely and beautifully told. I read Drunk Mom with my jaw on the floor, which doesn't happen to me that often." - Lena Dunham Three years after giving up drinking, Jowita Bydlowska found herself throwing back a glass of champagne like it was ginger ale. It was a special occasion: a party celebrating the birth of her first child. It also marked Bydlowska's immediate, full-blown return to crippling alcoholism.In the gritty and sometimes grimly comic tradition of the bestselling memoirs Lit by Mary Karr and Smashed by Koren Zailckas, Drunk Mom is Bydlowska's account of the ways substance abuse took control of her life- the binges and blackouts, the humiliations, the extraordinary risk-taking- as well as her fight toward recovery as a young mother.
About the Author
Jowita Bydlowska was born in Warsaw, Poland. She is the author of the bestselling memoir Drunk Mom (Doubleday Canada, HarperCollins Australia, Penguin US) . Her bestselling novel Guy (Buckrider Press) came out in the fall of 2016. She's been published in a number of anthologies, and she is also the author of many short stories, and has appeared in Best Canadian Short Stories 2017. As a journalist, she writes about culture, social issues and mental health for a variety of national and international publications. Her new novel, I'm Sorry I Love You, is due to come out in 2022.
