| Smashed: Story Of A Drunken Childhood is Koren Zailckas memoir on her abuse of alcohol from adolescence up to the age of twenty-three. Koren bluntly tells how she started drinking at fourteen and how it stunted her emotional growth, her failed relationships and even a date rape. Koren continued to drink all the way through her college years at Syracuse university up until she got her first job and apartment in NYC. Similar to "Dry" by Augusten Burroughs and Caroline Knapp's "Drinking: A love Story", Smashed is a cautionary tale on the powerful hold alcohol could have over a person. | ||
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Plot & Themes Kids growing up/acting up? Yes Kids: - boozing Phys disability/mental struggle? Yes Struggle with - alcohol Period of greatest activity? - 1950+ Subject of Biography Gender - Female Profession/status: Ethnicity - White Setting How much descriptions of surroundings? - 4 () United States Yes The US: - Northeast City? Yes City: - New York - Boston Century: - 1980's-Present Writing Style Book makes you feel? - depressed Graphic sex in book? Yes What kind of sex: - rape/molest - How much dialogue in bio? - significantly more descript than dialog |
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