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Sober Is My New Drunk
Paul Carr
850 Days (and Counting) without Booze or AA. A Comedy in Twelve Steps.
Byliner
March 2012
On Sale: March 9, 2012
ISBN: 0014303876 EAN: 2940014303873 Kindle: B007IXU1G0 e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Paul Carr gave up booze with the same verve and originality
that he brought to his life as a drunk. For one thing, he didn’t go to Alcoholics Anonymous, an
organization that, he writes, “breeds an ‘it’s not my fault’
mentality that refuses to accept that anyone can ever truly
be cured of the ‘disease’ of alcoholism.” Instead, Carr quit in the most non-anonymous way imaginable:
He posted an open letter on his popular website. The letter
was both a confession and an invitation for public scrutiny.
“No matter where I was,” he recalls, “there was always a
chance that someone had read my post and was waiting to
catch me with a drink in my hand.” To help keep himself on
the straight and narrow, Carr still has a counter at the top
of his site, ticking off the number of days he’s gone
without a drink. In this bracing (but zero-proof) tale of recovery, Carr
delivers his own twelve steps to building a life without
booze. His hard-earned advice, punctuated with anecdotes
that are both cautionary and comic (a bender once took him
to Iceland, where he drunkenly believed he’d get better
Wi-Fi) is given with humility and goodwill. Along the way,
Carr celebrates the simple yet overlooked pleasures of
sobriety—weight loss, a renewed love life, the ability to
buy a phone or laptop without promptly losing it in a bar.
As he slowly discovers, a sober life actually CAN be fun.
What’s more, he’ll remember it.
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