Denial: A Memoir: Life Decisions Shaped by the Bottle (The Powerless Series)

By Lela Fox

Book 2 of 7 (and standalone): Her plan was set in stone. To make it happen, all Lela Fox had to do was control all people, places, and things. Through the fog of alcohol, she scrambled to create a life where alcohol couldn't control her. But it was too late. Eighteen-year-old Lela believed marriage, motherhood, and maturity would force the ogre of addiction to loosen its grip on her soul. Instead, the grip tightens and nearly squeezes the life from her. Denial follows Lela from her first drunken year in college, beginning with sexual assault and a harrowing accident, through a fraudulent job, and along the jagged peaks and valleys of a doomed marriage. Her mood swings cause chaos and send the frustrated husband on a different kind of bender. The pain of it all bankrupts Lela emotionally and spiritually, but a bottle of Chardonnay is always nearby. She ends up alone and fragile, a 25-year-old divorced mother who has evolved from a dedicated binge drinker to a frightened full-time daily sot. Through Lela's honest and poignant prose, you can feel it happening and feel her pain... the kind that may seem all-too-familiar to alcoholics. Denial: A Memoir combines her tales of tragedy and joviality as she trudges through a life that's as hilarious as it is horrifying. Denial is the second book in The Life and Times of a Curious Drunk series. It continues the string of bizarre tales of Lela Fox's years in and out of the bottle. With poignant dialogue and spine-tingling action, you'll follow the life of this courageous woman: a drunk with uncanny luck and unending stamina. Is kicking the booze her only goal? Is that enough?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1790422264
• ISBN13: 9781790422265
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"