Author, sarah hepola, grew up in dallas, tx and attended the same middle and high school my children attend, so if course i was very curious about her and the book. Its as lyrically written as a literary novel, as tightly wound as a thriller, as wellresearched as a work of investigative journalism, and as impossible to put down as, well, a cold beer on a hot day. Sarah hepola and i end the interview accepting that although we have questions, there is not one simple answer that would be applicable to the wide range of women out there. Join the win book group network for our december meeting. Instead of pining for the mythical good old days, when people didnt spend hours a day staring at screens, this book shares the pleasure of powering down and enjoying the moment. Dallas observeri love a recovery memoir, just in general, but sarah hepolas blackout.
It features a new york city family during an electrical power outage. Sarah hepola is the author of the new york times bestseller blackout. A book about freedom that will help set others free as well walter kirn, author of up in the air sarah hepola is my favorite kind of memoirist. Before he was americas favorite philosopher comic, he was just another comedian out on tour. Bracing and heartbreakingly honest, sarah hepolas memoir blackout tears off the bandaid of her alcohol addiction and. Blackout quotes showing of 100 we all live in the long shadow of the person we could have been. Angelous memoir is always ranked near the top of lists on the best black literature, so its about time i read this seminal classic. The family learns an important lesson about needing all their electronics. Shots health news writer sarah hepola once got so drunk before giving a presentation to 300 people that she didnt remember. Blackout author sarah hepola spurs the conversation about. While this is an important memoir by a party girl blackout alcoholic, i found it even more significant for ms. The blackout is a fun read and helps lessen a childs anxiety.
Out of the blackout is my favorite novel by british author robert barnard. Sarah hepolas blackout, on the darkness that took over her life. Much has been written about sarah hepolas book blackout. Thriller with superpowered teens has comingofage appeal. Sarah hepolas memoir blackout is filled with stories that are both funny. It is a great discussion book to help parents talk about blackouts and power outages with children. In an age of digital distractions, a power outage is a major disruption and, as john rocco illustrates in this beautiful picture book, a rare opportunity.
Blackout quotes by sarah hepola goodreads share book. As hurricane sandy descends upon new york, leaving destruction in her wake and plunging the city into darkness, a group of friends and neighbors come together and discover the joys, heartaches, and pleasures of human connection. Why this particular quote from sarah hepolas recently published blackout. Remembering the things i drank to forget, comes out next week in paperback. Hepola has written some great essays about her drinking years.
Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading blackout. Its as lyrically written as a literary novel, as tightly wound as a thriller. Blackout is a childrens picture book written and illustrated by john rocco, published by disney hyperion in 2011. There are those who drink the book club wine, then go happily home to bed. Now shes expanded them into a book chicago reader sarah hepolas blackout is the best kind of memoir. Sarah hepola on drinking blackouts blackout when drinking.
Blackout, the debut memoir by salon editor sarah hepola, is one such memoir. Remembering the things i drank to forget and the former personal essays editor at. Previously she was personal essays editor at salon. Sarah took an interest in alcohol at a frighteningly early age.
Author sarah hepola on her new memoir, blackout vogue. Remembering the things i drank to forget sarah hepola. Sarah grew up in dallas, texas, and was brought up in a household of modest chaos. Blackout author sarah hepola on drinking as a coping. Sarah on srn if youve read sarahs beautifullycrafted memoir of active alcoholism and recovery youre going to want to listen.
I had so many good passages marked in this book that i used up a pile of postits. Its a memoir of her alcoholismspecifically her propensity to drink to the point of oblivionbut also an. I read this book in one sitting because i quite simply could not put it down. A summer power outage draws an urban family up to their buildings roof and then down to the street for an impromptu block party. Sarah hepola, author of blackout a writer remembers what she drank to forget sarah hepolas memoir blackout is filled with stories that are both funny and tragic about how she. Emily rapp, author of the still point of the turning world. Social studies a good angle is hard to find by sarah hepola. The book engages universal questions where do i belong. There is a story that i dont really dwell on too much in the book, but. When hepola first starts to drink it allows her to escape and hide her insecurities but similar to a bad relationship, soon the love affair transforms into something complicated and dark, and she comes to see that things havent been good for a while. Its the story of how drinking fit in with and distorted her idea of being an empowered woman. Blackout by john rocco perfect picture book childrens.
As someone who drank to get through the bulk of her. A path from blackout drunkenness to sobriety and self. Blackout is a book about drinking and eventual sobriety, but its also an exploration of the fleeting nature of the comfort we all constantly seekcomfort with the self, with others, with the whole maddening, confusing, exhilarating world. Remembering the things i drank to forget, doesnt escape this happysad fate. Remembering the things i drank to forget kindle edition. My addiction to addiction memoirs continues, and blackout was the perfect fix. This book is not about all women and all drinking but there is a certain strain of us. The book engages universal questionswhere do i belong. And ones that hepola looks at forensically through the lens of her own life in blackout. During the blackout, the lack of distraction by their technological devices leads to a renewal of the family members connections with each other.
Remembering the things i drank to forget, sarah hepola examines how she drank, why she drank, how others responded to her, and the misfortunes that occurred during her journey to sobriety. Remembering the things i drank to forget kindle edition by hepola, sarah. Blackout author sarah hepola on drinking as a coping mechanism and the therapy of writing all these different things that im carrying through the. One of the most refreshing and admirable qualities of sarah hepolas debut memoir, blackout. Julie beck is a senior editor at the atlantic, where she oversees the family section, and is the creator of the friendship files. And blackout is an inside account of how corporations erased black identity from black radio and mainstream black music and why i chose to fight back.
At a party i threw a few months later, a friend danced in my living room in a giant fish costume. Luckily for us, it gets a good workingout in sarah hepolas blackout, a burntout sparkler of an alcoholism memoir and an immediate new york times bestseller. Remembering the things i drank to forget, got drunk, she was eleven years old, visiting her cousin for summer vacation. This mystery novel is one of the most unusual books ive ever read. Hepolas brilliant and sassy style in profoundly and provocatively addressing the prevalent problem of young women and alcohol on university campuses. When she was as young as seven years old, she began to sneak drinks out of her parents beer and enjoyed the buzz. Sarah hepolas blackout, on the darkness that took over. Remembering the things i drank to forget, was a new york times bestseller. A book centered on this horrific attack, one of the defining moments of the civil rights era, seemed like a fitting read for black history month. Sarahs candor and goodhumor made for a terrifically insightful.
Remembering the things i drank to forget by hepola, sarah isbn. Blackout author sarah hepola spurs the conversation about alcohol and women. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Prior to reading it id read a number of extracts online, and decided that hepolas memoir of addiction and recovery offered a more enticing read while holidaying in corsica than tolstoys epic tale was able to. Her writing has appeared in the new york times magazine, new republic, glamour, slate, guardian, and morning news. Using a combination of panels and full bleed illustrations that move from color to blackandwhite and back to color, john rocco shows that if we are willing to put our cares aside for a while, there is party potential in a summer blackout. In this extract from blackout, sarah hepolas memoir of growing up and getting sober, she describes how losing minutes, even hours while drinking, came to seem normal blacking out was bad, but it wasnt that big of a deal, right. The spread of the selfie produces daily turmoil, from columnist doommongering to celebrity scandals. Sarah hepolas blackout, for the girls that didnt want to. Sarah hepolas excellent memoir blackout tells the familiar story of a love affair with booze gone wrong. For her book, she speaks to scientists and other experts. Sarah hepola, author of blackout a writer remembers. Remembering the things i drank to forget, is an absolute standout in the genre.
A path from blackout drunkenness to sobriety and selfacceptance. From first glance, the book chronicles hepolas decadeslong relationship to alcohol and the sobriety that eventually follows. Remembering the things i drank to forget by sarah hepola. Her writing is superb, but her emotional insight is even greater. Blackout is an explosive look at the corruption that is running rampant in the industry. Alcohol was the gasoline of all adventure for sarah hepola. An excerpt from blackout sarah hepolas memoir on remembering the things i drank to forget an excerpt fri. Because as a therapist i recognize it as a fairly common scenariothe denial that precedes an altogether different discovery about ones drinking and its effects. She is a reporter with a poets instincts, an anthropologist of her own soul. Remembering the things i drank to forget and it is highly deserving of all the accolades it has. Simon thorn, a young man who was lost in the london blitz during world war ii as a child, searches for his true identity. The boy switches off the lights, and out comes the board game again.