Read Koren Zailckas's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community. The author of the iconic "New York Times" bestseller "Smashed" undertakes a quest to confront her own anger. In the years following the publication of her landmark memoir, "Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood," Koren Zailckas stays sober and relegates binge drinking to her past. But a psychological legacy of repression lingers-her sobriety is a loose surface layer atop a hard- packed, unacknowledged rage that wreaks havoc on Koren emotionally and professionally. When a failed relationship leads Koren back to her childhood home, she sinks into emotional crisis-writer's block, depression, anxiety. Only when she begins to apply her research on a book about anger to the turmoil of her own life does she learn what denial has cost her. The result is a blisteringly honest chronicle of the consequences of anger displaced...
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