Stash : my life in hiding / Laura Cathcart Robbins.
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TextPublisher: New York, NY : Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First Atria Books hardcover editionDescription: viii, 278 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
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- 9781668005330
- 1668005336
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"An emotionally absorbing and swiftly paced multisensory experience." -- The New York Times Book Review
Named a Best Memoir of 2023 by Elle
In the vein of Somebody's Daughter , this wild, vivid addiction memoir from the host of the podcast The Only One in the Room "will inspire, awe, entertain, educate, and help so many readers" (Christie Tate, New York Times bestselling author) with a journey to sobriety and self-love amidst privilege and racism.
After years of hiding her addiction from everyone--stockpiling pills in her Louboutins and elaborately scheduling her withdrawals between PTA meetings, baby showers, and tennis matches--Laura Cathcart Robbins is running out of places to hide.
She has learned the hard way that even her high-profile marriage and Hollywood lifestyle can't protect her from the pain she's keeping bottled up inside. Facing divorce, the possibility of a grueling custody battle, and the insistent voice of internalized racism that nags at her as a Black woman in a startlingly white world, Laura wonders just how much more she can take.
Now, with courageous and candid openness, she reveals how she started the long journey towards sobriety, unexpectedly found new love, and dismantled the wall she had built around herself, brick by brick. With its raw, finely crafted, and engaging prose, Stash is "emotionally riveting...usher[ing] in a new way for us to talk and read about the paradoxes of addiction, race, family, class, and gender." (Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy ).
"A voice-driven, gripping, and propulsive addiction memoir about a wealthy Black woman on a journey to becoming whole while grappling with issues of substance abuse, race, class, self-sabotage, and love, by the host of the popular podcast, The Only One in the Room"-- Provided by publisher.
After years of hiding her addiction from everyone, Cathcart Robbins settled into a complicated purgatory. She learned the hard way that privilege doesn't protect you from pain. Facing divorce, the possibility of a grueling custody battle, and internalized racism, Robbins wondered just how much more she could take. Here she reveals how she managed to begin the long journey towards sobriety and unexpectedly finding new love. She discusses taking down the wall she built around herself brick by brick, and what it means to be Black in the startlingly white world of Hollywood. Her memoir tells just how badly the facade she created had to shatter before she could reconnect to her true self. -- adapted from jacket