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Our excerpt is from a book review of Sarah Hepola's addiction memoir, “Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget.”
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One of the strongest things in “Blackout” is Ms. Hepola’s writing about the science of blacking out, how people tend to confuse it with slumping over. “In a blackout, a person is anything but silent and immobile,” she writes. “You can talk and laugh and charm people at the bar with funny stories of your past.” You can sing defiant karaoke. But your blood alcohol has shut down your brain’s long-term memory center, and you will recall nothing.
The blackouts, at first, are something she shrugs off “like an unpaid cable bill.” For her book, she speaks to scientists and other experts. One tells her, ominously: “When men are in a blackout, they do things to the world. When women are in a blackout, things are done to them.”
-- Dwight Garner at The New York Times
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One of the strongest things in “Blackout” is Ms. Hepola’s writing about the science of blacking out, how people tend to confuse it with slumping over. “In a blackout, a person is anything but silent and immobile,” she writes. “You can talk and laugh and charm people at the bar with funny stories of your past.” You can sing defiant karaoke. But your blood alcohol has shut down your brain’s long-term memory center, and you will recall nothing.
The blackouts, at first, are something she shrugs off “like an unpaid cable bill.” For her book, she speaks to scientists and other experts. One tells her, ominously: “When men are in a blackout, they do things to the world. When women are in a blackout, things are done to them.”
-- Dwight Garner at The New York Times
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