Girl Walks Out of a Bar, Lisa F. Smith
Girl Walks Out of a Bar, Lisa F. Smith
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Girl Walks Out of a Bar
A Memoir

Author: Lisa F. Smith

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Unabridged: 8 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/13/2016

Synopsis

Lisa Smith was a bright young lawyer at a prestigious law firm in New York City when alcoholism and drug addiction took over her life. What was once a way she escaped her insecurity and negativity as a teenager became a means of coping with the anxiety and stress of an impossible workload.Girl Walks Out of a Bar explores Smith’s formative years, her decade of alcohol and drug abuse, divorce, and her road to recovery. In this darkly comic and wrenchingly honest story, Smith describes how her circumstances conspired with her predisposition to depression and self-medication in an environment ripe for addiction to flourish. When her close-knit group of high-achieving friends celebrate the end of their grueling workdays with alcohol-fueled nights at the city’s clubs and summer weekends partying at the beach, the feel-good times can spiral wildly out of control.Girl Walks Out of a Bar is a candid portrait of alcoholism through the lens of gritty New York realism. Beneath the façade of success lies the reality of addiction.

About Lisa F. Smith

Lisa Smith is a writer and a lawyer in New York City. Sober for more than ten years, she is passionate about breaking the stigma of drug and alcohol addiction. Her writing has been published in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, After Party magazine, and Addiction.com.

About Hillary Huber

Hillary Huber is one of the most successful voice talents in Los Angeles. Recent books read for Blackstone Audio include Him, Her, Him Again, the End of Him by Patricia Marx, A Field of Darkness by Cornelia Read, and A Map of Glass by Jane Urquhart.

Reviews

Goodreads review by J.L. on March 28, 2018

Lisa K. Smith's Girl Walks Out of a Bar is an engaging memoir about addiction spiraling out of control as well as taking charge of that addiction. Stories from functional alcoholics, who seemingly invent a life around their addiction which has nothing to do with the life everyone else sees them lead......more

Goodreads review by Theresa on January 07, 2017

When I finished this book (as an ebook), I was a shocked by how many I-was-an-addict-who-got-sober stories that were recommended to me (“If you liked this book, here are fifty more similar books . . .) I like these stories of successful people who lost everything and then claw their way back up to s......more

Goodreads review by Peter on March 22, 2017

I've read tons of recovery memoirs and I have to say it wasn't my favorite. That being said, the story was well written and compelling and my best friend loved it but I just didn't connect with the writer. Check out my full review on my booktube channel [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by Carrie on January 29, 2017

Long drawn out story of a privileged woman with supportive family and friends, a high paying job and the ability to seemingly come out on top, despite dealing with alcoholism and drug addiction.......more

Goodreads review by Andrea on November 17, 2016

Eye opening first hand account of the horrors of addiction. You never know the types of battles that others are fighting.........more

Quotes

“This girl may have walked out of a bar, but she’s walked into one of the best addiction memoirs I’ve ever read.” Anna David, New York Times bestselling author

“This powerful memoir chronicles [Smith’s] dizzying fall and the road back.” People

“Her raw depiction unveils the pressures of her job as well as the personal costs of addiction…Readers will root for this extraordinary woman as she travels the path to recovery.” Publishers Weekly

“A darkly comic, honest, and completely relatable inside look at high-functioning addiction in the world of corporate law…Inspiring, informative, and impossible to put down.” Jennifer Belle, bestselling author of High Maintenance

“Raw, naked, and unflinching, Girl Walks out of a Bar catapults the reader into the sordid, desperate reality of high-functioning addiction…A chilling, cautionary tale.” Ann Dowsett Johnston, author of Drink: The Intimate Relationship between Women and Alcohol

Awards

  • People Pick of the Week
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