Lush

A Memoir

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Pub Date 17 Jul 2018 | Archive Date 31 Jul 2018

Description

"For those of us wrestling with demons—and who isn't?—Lush is a solace and as powerful as red wine." —Claire Dederer, bestselling author of Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning

When Loose Girl author Kerry Cohen reached her early 40s, she realized she had a drinking problem. Yes, she could get up on time, bring her kids to school, make dinner, chat with friends, and all around have a normal day, but, throughout it all, Kerry was waiting for her five o'clock glass of wine. Maybe two glasses. Maybe a bottle. Just enough to blur the edges of her life that had become a monotony of vacuuming, carpooling, and disagreements with her husband. Kerry had replaced one addiction with another, instead of seeking sex she was seeking merlot. Instead of intimacy, she craved the fuzziness of a nice buzz.

What she also realized was: she wasn't the only one.

LUSH is a gripping memoir that examines Kerry's struggle with alcohol, a struggle that a rising number of middle-aged women are facing today as alcohol dependency amongst females drastically increases. A wonderfully poignant and relatable follow up to her memoir Loose Girl, LUSH follows Kerry as she attempts to rediscover the awe in her life, leaving past mistakes, regrets, and the bottle behind.

"For those of us wrestling with demons—and who isn't?—Lush is a solace and as powerful as red wine." —Claire Dederer, bestselling author of Love and Trouble: A Midlife Reckoning

When Loose Girl author...


Advance Praise

“Raw, intimate, and brave, Lush tears apart the usual advice about drinking and addiction (guess what, AA isn’t the only answer) and chronicles Cohen’s journey toward a healing that at first she can only imagine. Gorgeously written and audaciously intelligent, here is a controversial and compelling look at finding your own way back.” —Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author of Is This Tomorrow and Pictures of You

“Kerry Cohen applies her legendary wit and sagacity to women’s often subtly destructive dance with alcohol. With great vulnerability and dynamic prose, Cohen examines her own descent into the bottle, its ruinous consequences, and her courageous fight to find her footing in her real life again. This is a story you won’t soon forget.” —Jillian Lauren, New York Times bestselling memoirist of Some Girls: My Life in a Harem and Everything You Ever Wanted

“Holy mother of wine—finally, a woman wrestles the story of what it is really like to be a woman away from what we’ve been told we are supposed to be. Kerry Cohen’s Lush will light you up, crack you up, make you bawl, and, most of all, allow you to breathe again. I’m beyond thrilled to read a book where a woman tells the truth without falling into the sap hole of the sin-and-redemption narrative. There is no sin and redemption. There’s just our lives, and as Cohen reminds us one truth bomb at a time, they are messily gorgeous. Move over, Mary Karr.” —Lidia Yuknavitch, bestselling author of The Book of Joan and The Misfit’s Manifesto

Kerry Cohen has hit on something important that's rarely discussed—how the everyday disappointment of middle age can lead to abuses one never imagined as a teenager. Her voice bristles with both vulnerability and sass; her observations and analyses are razor sharp. This is about drinking, but also about the simple anguish of being human. I guzzled Lush in one long gulp.” —Karen Karbo, author of The Gospel According to Coco Chanel and How Georgia Became O’Keeffe


“Raw, intimate, and brave, Lush tears apart the usual advice about drinking and addiction (guess what, AA isn’t the only answer) and chronicles Cohen’s journey toward a healing that at first...


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ISBN 9781492652199
PRICE $15.99 (USD)
PAGES 240

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