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Index
Author’s Note
Dedication
Epigraphs
Prologue
PART ONE: SINGING BACKWARDS
1 The Monkey Diary
The beginning of the end
2 Out of Africa
A family unravels
3 You’ve Come the Wrong Way, Baby
Closing the gender gap on risky drinking
4 The Future Is Pink
The alcohol industry takes aim at the female consumer
5 The Age of Vulnerability
The consequences of drinking young
6 Binge
The campus drinking culture
PART TWO: ON THE EDGE OF THE BIG LONELY
7 Searching for the Off Button
Drinking to forget, drinking to numb
8 Self-Medication
Mood disorders and alcohol: A seductive combination
9 Romancing the Glass
A slim stem of liquid swagger
10 The Modern Woman’s Steroid
Popping the cork on mother’s little helper
11 The Last Taboo
Drinking and pregnancy
12 The Daughters’ Stories
Growing up with an alcoholic mother
PART THREE: HEALING
13 In Which Everything Changes
Getting sober, staying sober
14 Breaking the Trauma Cycle
The mother-and-child reunion
15 Something in the Water
Shaping a strong public health strategy
16 Wrestling with the God Thing
Spirituality and sobriety
17 Stigma
A call to action
18 Becoming Whole
In which I recover my self
Acknowledgments
Notes
About the Author
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
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