Advance Praise for Girl Walks out of a Bar

“Lisa Smith gives us a darkly comic, honest, and completely relatable inside look at high-functioning addiction in the world of corporate law—a sort of ‘Sex and the Psych Ward.’ It’s inspiring, informative, and impossible to put down.”

—Jennifer Belle, best-selling author of High Maintenance and The Seven Year Bitch

“Whether she’s telling the town car driver to turn around so she can ditch showing up for her niece’s birth and meet her coke dealer, or staging her own semi-intervention, Smith takes us into the mind of someone who’s completely in control while being radically out of control. This girl may have walked out of a bar, but she’s walked into one of the best addiction memoirs I’ve ever read.”

—Anna David, New York Times best-selling author of Party Girl, Bought, and editor of True Tales of Lust and Love

“Raw, naked and unflinching, Girl Walks out of a Bar catapults the reader into the sordid, desperate reality of high-functioning addiction: the booze, the coke, the lies; the denial, the depression, the blackouts. All are on full display as New York lawyer Lisa Smith loses herself in a deep and all-too-human descent into perpetual numbing. A chilling, cautionary tale.”

—Ann Dowsett Johnston, Author of Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol

“Smith openly shares the lies, secrecy, depression, and isolation that define a life only made ‘livable’ by alcohol. Her raw depiction unveils the pressures of her job (20 percent of lawyers have substance abuse problems, she reports) as well as the personal costs of addiction, including divorce, ill health, and self-loathing. Readers will root for this extraordinary woman as she travels the path to recovery, healing, and triumph over addiction; her riveting story will inspire both those who have been there and those who have not.”

—Publishers Weekly April 4, 2016