This week, on Reading Like a Normal Person, join me and Kristen Crocker from Recoverettes as we talk about Drinking: A Love Story. Before Laura McKowen or Holly Whitaker there was Caroline Knapp. Unfortunately, I mispronounce her first name a couple of times in this episode, but that’s okay because I forgive myself. Kristen was so easy to talk to. We covered cold, dark families, the trauma of early parenting, the pain of quitting sugar, what it means to be a shamanic practitioner, and why publishing a book is so depressing.

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