{"product_id":"girl-walks-out","title":"Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir by Lisa F. Smith (Very good, 2016, Pbk, 277 pgs, Select Books)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCover has slight wear; inside like new. ISBN 9781590793213\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Whether she's telling the town car driver to turn around so she can ditch showing up for her niece's birth and meet her coke dealer, or staging her own semi-intervention, Smith takes us into the mind of someone who's completely in control while being radically out of control. This girl may have walked out of a bar, but she's walked into one of the best addiction memoirs I've ever read.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLisa Smith was a bright young lawyer at a prestigious law firm in NYC when alcoholism and drug addiction took over her life. What was once a way she escaped her insecurity and negativity as a teenager became a means of coping with the anxiety and stress of an impossible workload.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGirl Walks Out of a Bar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e explores Smith's formative years, her decade of alcohol and drug abuse, divorce, and her road to recovery. In this darkly comic and wrenchingly honest story, Smith describes how her circumstances conspired with her predisposition to depression and self-medication in an environment ripe for addiction to flourish. When her close-knit group of high-achieving friends celebrate the end of their grueling workdays with alcohol-fueled nights at the city's clubs and summer weekends partying at the beach the feel-good times can spiral wildly out of control.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGirl Walks Out of a Bar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a candid portrait of alcoholism through the lens of gritty New York realism. Beneath the façade of success lies the reality of addiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faith Books23","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49770028466403,"sku":null,"price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0678\/3303\/7027\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_137f6c42-2d9f-437d-b542-590c30d67903.jpg?v=1789737722","url":"https:\/\/faithbooks23.com\/de\/products\/girl-walks-out","provider":"Faith Books23","version":"1.0","type":"link"}