The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison

The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath

Leslie Jamison

546 pages first pub 2018 (editions) user-added

nonfiction biography memoir psychology challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

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By the New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams, an exploration of addiction, and the stories we tell about it, that reinvents the traditional recovery memoir.With its deeply personal and seamless blend of memoir, cultural history, l...

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Moods

reflective 74%
informative 70%
emotional 61%
challenging 58%
dark 32%
hopeful 32%
inspiring 25%
sad 16%
tense 9%
adventurous 3%
funny 3%

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slow 50%
medium 46%
fast 3%

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