When a nice girl from New Jersey lands her dream job at a Manhattan law firm, she and her group of ambitious young peers work hard and party harder at the city's glamorous clubs. Girl Walks out of a Bar is the true and darkly comic story of Lisa Smith's ten chaotic years as a secret alcoholic and drug addict.
Lisa Smith was a bright, young lawyer at a prestigious firm in NYC in the early nineties when alcoholism started to take over her life. What was once a way of escaping her insecurity and negativity became a means of coping with the anxiety and stress of an impossible workload. Girl Walks Out of a Bar is Smith's darkly comic and wrenchingly honest story of her formative years, the decade of alcohol and drug abuse, divorce, and her road to recovery. Smith describes how her spiraling circumstances conspired with her predisposition to depression and self-medication, nurturing an environment ripe for addiction to flourish. Girl Walks Out of a Bar is a candid portrait of alcoholism through the lens of gritty New York realism. Beneath the façade of success lies the reality of addiction.
Publisher: Independent Publishers Group
Original Binding: Trade Paperback
Pages: 288 pages
ISBN-10: 1590793218
Item Weight: 0.9 lbs
Dimensions: 5.9 x 0.7 x 8.9 inches
Customer Reviews: 4 out of 5 stars 1,001 to 10,000 ratings
"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
"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
"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
"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
Lisa Smith is a writer and a lawyer in New York City. Sober for more than ten years, she is passionate about breaking the stigma of drug and alcohol addiction, particularly for professional women.
Lisa's writing has been published in The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, AfterPartyMagazine, and Addiction.com. She is on the Board of Directors of the NY Writers Coalition and The Writers Room in Greenwich Village.
Prior to working for more than fifteen years in legal marketing, she practiced corporate finance law at a leading international law firm.
After attending Northwestern University, Lisa received a JD from Rutgers School of Law, where she served on the editorial board of the Rutgers Law Review.
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