My Fair Junkie: Booktrack Edition
A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean
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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 20-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.
My Fair Junkie: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! 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.
©2019 Amy Dresner (P)2019 Hachette BooksCritic reviews
"Dresner's book is a sickening masterpiece. Hilarious and raw, she cuts to bony truth. I love her!" (Margaret Cho)
"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)
"Darkly funny, the memoir reckons with demons - sex addiction, drugs, and the quest for sobriety - in brutally honest, entertaining prose." (Refinery29)
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- Miss Carleen T. Shepherd
- 02-09-24
Honest portrayal of addiction.
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?
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