Sarah Levy presents Drinking Games: A Memoir

Join us at Bendición Dry Bar to celebrate Sarah Levy's new book, Drinking Games: A Memoir, with a reading and book signing. Part memoir and part social critique, Drinking Games is about how one woman drank and lived - and how, for her, the last drink was just the beginning.

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On paper, Sarah Levy’s life was on track. She was 28, living in New York City, working a great job, and socializing every weekend. But Sarah had a secret: her relationship with alcohol was becoming toxic. And only she could save herself.

Drinking Games explores the role alcohol has in our formative years, and what it means to opt out of a culture completely enmeshed in drinking. It’s an examination of what our short-term choices about alcohol do to our long-term selves and how they challenge our ability to be vulnerable enough to discover what we really want in life.

Candid and dynamic, this book speaks to the all-consuming cycle of working hard, playing harder, and trying to look perfect while you’re at it. Sarah takes us by the hand through her personal journey with blackouts, dating, relationships, wellness culture, startups, social media, friendship, and self-discovery.

In this intimate and darkly funny memoir, she stumbles through her twenties, explores the impact alcohol has on relationships and identity, and shows us how life’s messiest moments can end up being the most profound.

"Bracing and insightful...offers equal measures of introspection and hope. This emotional excavation will inspire anyone navigating addiction." ––Publishers Weekly

“Candid, straightforward, and full of introspection. Levy successfully articulates the emotional roller coaster of being drunk and being sober through important life moments and shows her readers how fulfilling a sober life can be.” ––Booklist

"Poignant. [DRINKING GAMES] reads like an intimate conversation between friends." ––Kirkus

“Part memoir, part social critique, this book takes a look at the role drinking plays in our culture — and how opting out requires honest self-reflection and vulnerability.” ––New York Post

"Candid and darkly funny" ––PureWow

"Messy and candid, this memoir is dedicated to those who think sobriety is an ending when it's actually a beginning." ––BuzzFeed

"A modern look at what getting sober as a millennial living in NYC really looks like." ––TheSkimm

"With candor and curiosity, [Levy] looks at a substance we all know - some of us all too well - to uncover the truth about sobriety and its advantages." ––Los Angeles Times

Sarah Levy is the author of, a memoir in essays from St. Martin’s Press. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine (The Cut), Glamour, Elle, Vogue, Refinery29, and Cosmopolitan, among other publications. Sarah is a graduate of Brown University and lives in Los Angeles by way of New York City. You can follow her on Instagram and sign up for her weekly newsletter, Seltzer Rocks, here.

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