All Out: Portrait of a Young Addict

by Isabel Rae McKenzie

"I didn’t stand a chance when I first picked up alcohol or prescription drugs," she writes. "This has been a freeing realization: I never stood a chance." Part memoir and part living journal, Isabel Rae McKenzie's debut work traverses college parties, hospital gurneys, withdrawal stages, recovery meetings and a family intervention to showcase the insidiousness of alcohol and prescription drug addiction, the taxing and hopeful work of recovery, and the resilience of parental love.

215 pages, Paperback

Published September 26, 2019