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Quitter: A Memoir of Drinking, Relapse, and Recovery

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Readers

65/100

Critics

53/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Erica C. Barnett

Publisher:

Viking

Date:

July 7, 2020

A journalist looks back on an alcohol addiction that nearly killed her while she was working in the alternative-news industry for papers such as the Austin Chronicle, and farther back to her traumatic Southern childhood, where the roots of her addiction unfurled.

What The Reviewers Say

Beth Macy,
The New York Times Book Review
With snide asides reminiscent of those spouted by the main character in Fleabag, Barnett mocks the hipsters she worked with in Austin.

Publishers Weekly
... an intense account.

Kirkus
Barnett rises to the challenge with a witty, self-deprecating, sometimes snide voice.