reads like an intimate conversation between friends." –– Kirkus Levy successfully articulates the emotional roller coaster of being drunk and being sober through important life moments and shows her readers how fulfilling a sober life can be.” ––Booklist
“Candid, straightforward, and full of introspection. "Bracing and insightful.offers equal measures of introspection and hope. This emotional excavation will inspire anyone navigating addiction." –– Publishers Weekly She currently lives in Los Angeles, California with her husband. She has an MFA from New York University, where she was a recipient of the Goldwater Fellowship. Drinking Games is her first book.Ĭoco Mellors grew up in London and New York. in Literary Arts from Brown University and pursued a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from The New School. Her work examines the intersection of sobriety, relationships, and identity and has been featured in The New York Times, New York Magazine/The Cut, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Vogue, Elle, and other publications. Sarah Levy is a writer based in Los Angeles by way of New York. In this intimate and darkly funny memoir, she stumbles through her twenties, explores the impact alcohol has on relationships and identity, and shows us how life’s messiest moments can end up being the most profound. Sarah takes us by the hand through her personal journey with blackouts, dating, relationships, wellness culture, startups, social media, friendship, and self-discovery. It’s an examination of what our short-term choices about alcohol do to our long-term selves and how they challenge our ability to be vulnerable enough to discover what we really want in life.Ĭandid and dynamic, this book speaks to the all-consuming cycle of working hard, playing harder, and trying to look perfect while you’re at it. And only she could save herself.ĭrinking Games explores the role alcohol has in our formative years, and what it means to opt out of a culture completely enmeshed in drinking.
But Sarah had a secret: her relationship with alcohol was becoming toxic. She was 28, living in New York City, working a great job, and socializing every weekend. On paper, Sarah Levy’s life was on track. Part memoir and part social critique, Drinking Games is about how one woman drank and lived- and how, for her, the last drink was just the beginning.
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