Falling Into Manholes

"After seventeen years in recovery from alcoholism and bulimia, and having lost all my money in what I call 'my spectacular codependent bottom of 2000' with the help of my gambling addict ex-stockbroker-turned-mattress-salesman boyfriend, it has dawned on me that I can use my contempt, which is really my fear, to predict my future—or better yet, to change it." Wendy Merrill's Falling Into Manholes The Memoir of a Bad/Good Girl, written in March 2008, is a 240 page autobiography. I think this book is a very real, honest, high awakening book showing that life isn't something you can just waste. This book is of a local authors' life struggles while growing up in San Francisco, California. In this memoir she tells readers her most honest, emabarassing conflicts with drug and alcohol abuse and her fight with bulimia. I recommend this book to young adults who may or want to keep from enduring the same pressures of life she struggled with. It is amazing to see the writer bounce back from the bottom to reach a respected status of author.

(written by Kenisha)