Bydlowska, Jowita.

Drunk mom : a memoir / Jowita Bydlowska. - Toronto : Doubleday Canada, c2013. - 293 p. ; 22 cm.

Three years after giving up drink, Jowita Bydlowska found herself throwing back a glass of champagne like it was ginger ale. "It's a special occasion," she said to her boyfriend. And indeed it was. It was a party celebrating the birth of their first child. It also marked Jowita's immediate, full-blown return to alcoholism and all that entails for a new mother who is at first determined to keep her problem a secret. With brutal honesty, Bydlowska takes us through the binges and blackouts, the self-deception and less successful attempts to deceive others, the humiliations and extraordinary risk-taking. She shines a light on the endless hunger of wanting just one more drink, and one more again, while dealing with motherhood, anxiety, depression--and rehab. Her struggle to regain her sobriety is recorded in the same unsentimental, unsparing, sometimes grimly comic way. But the happy outcome is evidenced by the existence of this brilliant book: she has lived to tell the tale.

ISBN: 9780385677806 0385677804

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 20129065587

Subjects--Personal Names:
Bydlowska, Jowita.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Alcoholics--Canada--Biography.
Mothers--Canada--Biography.

Dewey Class. No.: 362.292092