| "Lighting Up" is about the author's struggle to overcome her addictions to cigarettes. Along the way she discovers, through therapy, that she has an addictive personality and she ends up cutting certain food (no more bread!), drugs, and other unhealthy, unproductive things out of her life. As a result of this and her therapy sessions, she becomes a more focused and better writer. She also gets married and has a better grasp on what a healthy relationship should include.
Many people will see themselves in this book as Shapiro struggles to give up cigarettes only to replace them with her substitute "drug" of choice "Blow Pops." | ||
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Plot & Themes Phys disability/mental struggle? Yes Struggle with - drugs Period of greatest activity? - 1950+ Subject of Biography Gender - Female Profession/status: Ethnicity - Jew Nationality - American Setting How much descriptions of surroundings? - 9 () City? Yes Century: - 1980's-Present Writing Style Book makes you feel? - encouraged - like laughing Graphic sex in book? Yes What kind of sex: - actual description of hetero sex How much dialogue in bio? - significantly more descript than dialog |
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