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My Fair Junkie: Booktrack Edition

A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean

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My Fair Junkie: Booktrack Edition

By: Amy Dresner
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 In the tradition of Blackout and Permanent Midnight, a darkly funny and revealing debut memoir of one woman's twenty-year battle with sex, drugs, and alcohol addiction, and what happens when she finally emerges on the other side.
Growing up in Beverly Hills, Amy Dresner had it all: a top-notch private-school education, the most expensive summer camps, and even a weekly clothing allowance. But at 24, she started dabbling in meth in San Francisco and unleashed a fiendish addiction monster. Soon, if you could snort it, smoke it, or have sex with it, she did.

Thus began a spiral that eventually landed her in the psych ward--and then penniless, divorced, and looking at 240 hours of court-ordered community service. For two years, assigned to a Hollywood Boulevard "chain gang," she swept up syringes (and worse) as she bounced from rehabs to halfway houses, all while struggling with sobriety, sex addiction, and starting over in her forties. In the tradition of Orange Is the New Black and Jerry Stahl's Permanent Midnight, this is an insightful, darkly funny, and shamelessly honest memoir of one woman's battle with all forms of addiction, hitting rock bottom, and forging a path to a life worth living.
*Booktrack is an immersive format that pairs traditional audiobook narration to complementary music. The tempo and rhythm of the score are in perfect harmony with the action and characters throughout the audiobook. Gently playing in the background, the music never overpowers or distracts from the narration, so listeners can enjoy every minute. When you purchase this Booktrack edition, you receive the exact narration as the traditional audiobook available, with the addition of music throughout. Addiction & Recovery Alcoholism Mental Health Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Memoir Substance abuse Funny Health Tradition

Critic reviews

"Like Carrie Fisher's 1987 autobiographical novel, Postcards From the Edge, and Mary Karr's 2009 memoir, Lit, Amy Dresner's story of addiction and recovery, My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Stay Clean (Hachette Books), is one for the ages."—Elle
One of BookAuthority's Best Memoir Books of All Time

"Dresner's book is a sickening masterpiece. Hilarious and raw, she cuts to bony truth. I love her!"—Margaret Cho
"Darkly funny, the memoir reckons with demons--sex addiction, drugs, and the quest for sobriety--in brutally honest, entertaining prose."—Refinery29
"Dresner delivered a debut memoir equal parts hilarious and chilling. My Fair Junkie is a must-read story."—POPSUGAR
"Mortifying, hilarious, unsparing, and weirdly life-affirming, My Fair Junkie hits the ground screaming and never lets up. As with all great 'drug memoirs,' the subject of this raw, squirm-fest of an autobiography is not drugs, but what made drugs necessary: the twisted history and relatably depraved torments of the author's own strung-out heart. For fans of Beyond Shame, low-bottom recollectors like Augusten Burroughs and Stephen Elliot, Amy Dresner has earned her spot on the shelf."—Jerry Stahl,author of Permanent Midnight
"Funny, raw, real, and moving. Amy's memoir digs deep inside the world of addiction and takes you on a ride you'd pay to go on again. Amy, like addiction, is a complicated beast that needs to be unraveled and exposed to understand--and she does just that in My Fair Junkie, an incredible read."—Amber Tozer, authorof Sober Stick Figure
"I loved this book! Amy Dresner is the real deal; a fiercely funny writer whose insights into addiction and recovery--and life--are full of truth, free of self-pity, sometimes scathing, often poignant, irresistibly page-turning, and painfully hilarious."—Stephen Guirgis,Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright
"The story she tells is hysterically funny at one moment and utterly harrowing the next--and often manages to be both those things at once."—Lawrence Block, NewYork Times bestselling and award-winning crime novelist, journalist, andauthor of the short story collection Enough Rope
"Hypnotic, magical, mesmerizing. Truly great. Amy Dresner is the most startlingly alert, poetic, stunning writer I have come across in decades. She is a real talent such as one rarely encounters."—Ben Stein, lawyer,economist, actor, and author of How to Ruin Your Financial Life
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The author of this book is a horrible person. And it’s really difficult to like her or feel sorry for her she wines her way through the book, being entitled and ungrateful. She complains about free healthcare on the NHS, her devoted parents and friends. And I still don’t know why she decided to abuse herself so badly when it really didn’t seem like she had any problems to begin with.
Maybe I’ve missed something.
She constantly cracks jokes throughout, and I get that this is her way, but they ware thin after a while and constantly ending up in hospital because you’ve abused yourself or allowing men to abuse you sexually, just isn’t funny.
There are some shocking stories about her sexual exploits that are hard to listen to, but again I don’t understand why she is letting this happen as she is the one in control . As she constantly reminds us throughout the book, she is hot, funny and skinny, but doesn’t have enough self esteem to say no to abusive perverts over the telephone.
But despite all of this I still wanted her to succeed in her struggles and become happy,maybe she could have gone in to therapy and spared us the poor stories and offensive attempts and accents. The British one is terrible, and why make your mother’s one sound so bad?

Honest portrayal of addiction.

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