Koren Zailckas - Fury: A Memoir

Colfax Avenue: Koren Zailckas, author of the landmark memoir Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood, will read from and sign her new book Fury: A Memoir ($25.95 Penguin). In the years following the publication of Smashed, Zailckas was sober and had relegated binge drinking to her past. But a psychological legacy of repression lingered—her sobriety was a loose surface layer atop a hard-packed, unacknowledged rage that wreaked havoc on her emotionally and professionally. When a failed relationship leads her back to her childhood home, she sinks into emotional crisis—writer’s block, depression, anxiety. Only when she begins to apply her research on a book about anger to the turmoil of her own life does she learn what denial has cost her. The result is a blisteringly honest chronicle of the consequences of anger displaced and the balm of anger discovered.

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