New York Times Bestseller
New York Times Bestseller
A bold, feminist reckoning with drinking culture that asks the question we’re all afraid to whisper: What if our entire relationship with alcohol is broken? Part memoir, part manifesto—this is the clear-eyed road map to liberation you didn’t know you needed.
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New York Times Bestseller
This isn’t just another quit-lit memoir. Holly Whitaker’s groundbreaking work asks a question most of us are afraid to whisper: What if our entire relationship with alcohol is broken?
In a culture where wine o’clock is a ritual and champagne marks every milestone, Whitaker pulls back the curtain on how drinking culture specifically targets and harms women. Drawing from her own journey to sobriety and her experience founding the first female-focused recovery program, she reveals why traditional recovery methods—designed by men, for men—often fail those who need them most.
What makes this book radical isn’t just its feminist lens on addiction. It’s Whitaker’s unflinching honesty about how alcohol companies have borrowed the tobacco industry’s playbook, marketing to women under the guise of empowerment and self-care. She dismantles the mythology we’ve built around drinking and offers a practical, empowering alternative to the shame-based recovery models of the past.
Written with wit, warmth, and refreshing candor, this is both memoir and manifesto. Whether you’re sober-curious, questioning your own habits, or simply want to understand the invisible forces shaping our relationship with alcohol, Whitaker offers a clear-eyed road map to liberation.
Glennon Doyle calls it “an unflinching examination of how our drinking culture hurts women and a gorgeous memoir of how one woman healed herself.” We call it essential reading—a book that might just change how you see everything.
An unflinching examination of how our drinking culture hurts women and a gorgeous memoir of how one woman healed herself.
Beautifully written and unflinchingly honest, Quit Like a Woman is a book that will change lives.
Holly Whitaker's writing is a lighthouse for those navigating the storm of sobriety and a lifeboat for those still adrift. This book is a gift.
A hopeful, humorous, and healing personal memoir and social critique about alcoholism and recovery, particularly as they relate to women.
A powerful debut memoir... Whitaker's narrative is bold and unapologetic.
This book is a must-read for anyone who has ever had a complicated relationship with alcohol.
An insightful exploration of the ways in which women have been targeted by the alcohol industry and let down by the recovery movement.
A bracingly honest, feminist take on recovery.
| Weight | 0.60 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 5.19 × 0.87 × 8.00 in |
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| Subject | Alcohol, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, Self-help, Social Science, Substance Abuse & Addictions, Women's Studies |
| Accolade |
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