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Today's Featured Title and Contest |
July 11, 2016 |
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This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we think is a great summer reading selection. Read more about it, and enter our Summer Reading Contest by Tuesday, July 12th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of SOBER STICK FIGURE: A Memoir by Amber Tozer, which is now available. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
You can take a look at all the books we're giving away in this year's Summer Reading contests on our new Pinterest page here.
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Today's Featured Book and Contest: SOBER STICK FIGURE: A Memoir, by Amber Tozer
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SOBER STICK FIGURE is a memoir from stand-up comedian Amber Tozer, chronicling her life as an alcoholic and her eventual recovery --- starting with her first drink at the age of seven --- all told with the help of childlike stick figures. Amber writes and illustrates the crazy and harsh truths of being raised by alcoholics, becoming one herself, stagnating in denial for years, and finally getting sober.
As a teenager, Amber is an overachieving student athlete who copes with her family’s alcoholic tragedies by focusing on her achievements. It quickly takes a funny and dark turn when she starts to experiment with booze and ignores the warning signs of alcoholism. Through blackouts, cringe-worthy embarrassments and pounding hangovers, she convinces herself that she “just likes to party.” She leaves her hometown of Pueblo, Colorado to follow her dreams, and ends up in New York City, spending lots of time binge drinking, passing out on trains, and telling jokes on stage. She then moves to Los Angeles, thinking that sunshine and show business will save her. Eventually hitting rock bottom, she has a moment of clarity and knows she has to stop drinking. It’s now been seven years since that last drink, and she’s ready to tell her story.
SOBER STICK FIGURE is adventurous, hilarious, sad, sweet, tragic --- and ultimately inspiring.
-Click here to read an excerpt.
-Connect with Amber Tozer on Facebook and Twitter.
-Click here to visit Amber Tozer's Instagram.
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Click here to enter the contest by Tuesday, July 12th at 11:59am ET. |
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