Nothing Good Can Come from This: Essays
β Scribed by Coulter, Kristi
- Book ID
- 110462091
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 495 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780374717087
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β¦ Synopsis
"Nothing Good Can Come from This is a book about generative discomfort, surprising sources of beauty, and the odd, often hilarious, business of being human." --Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams and The Recovering
Kristi Coulter inspired and incensed the internet when she wrote about what happened when she stopped drinking.Nothing Good Can Come from This is her debut--a frank, funny, and feminist essay collection by a keen-eyed observer no longer numbed into complacency.
When Kristi stopped drinking, she started noticing things. Like when you give up a debilitating habit, it leaves a space, one that can't easily be filled by mocktails or ice cream or sex or crafting. And when you cancel RosΓ© Season for yourself, you're left with just Summer, and that's when you notice that the women around you are tanked --that alcohol is the oil in the motors that keeps them purring when they...
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