Fighting a Drink: My Alcoholic Thinking Begins (The Powerless Series)

By Lela Fox

I used to blame it on those freaky albino sisters in the alley. I tried to blame my over-caring parents and living in a town much smaller than my dreams. I blamed anybody or anything that wasn't me. But alcoholism took my soul early, despite a lifelong fight against it. My tale begins with the first lukewarm beer. I was thirteen. It was like adding gasoline to an inferno, and my life turned on a dime. Suddenly focused on the ease and comfort alcohol brought, I launched a rocket that was the comedy and tragedy of my early drinking years. Fighting a Drink is the first two books in the Powerless series - Powerless and Denial, a tour of my drunken fuckups and stupid adventures in high school and college in the 1970s and early 80s. As a drunk, I was the life of every party. And there were lots of parties. Even then, knew I was an alcoholic - bat-shit-crazy and bi-polar as hell - but I put zero effort into stopping the flow of booze. Thinking myself wise and incredibly mature, I decided marriage and motherhood would cure my addiction, and I forced it, barreling over anything that stood in my way. But the white picket fence I dreamed of collapsed, and I heard the distant squeal of a downward spiral. I'd created a nightmare. A comedy. A tragedy. One helluva story. The Powerless series is a memoir told as a story; a story so twisted that it took seven books to reveal it all. It's the first two stops on my whirlwind train through five fucked-up decades of my life. Get a head start on this zany story about getting drunk, getting sober, and the quest for grace.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1699264953
• ISBN13: 9781699264959
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.2" x 6.0"