The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath by Leslie Jamison

The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath

Leslie Jamison

544 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

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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informative 73%
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challenging 56%
hopeful 33%
dark 30%
inspiring 23%
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tense 10%
adventurous 3%
funny 3%

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