Smashed

A 23-year-old looks back on the horrifying details of her drinking problem, which began when she was 14 and didn't end until a blackout seven years later, when she was out of college and working in Manhattan, jolted her out of it. Koren Zailckas intends her book to be not only a record of her own torments, but a cautionary tale for other teenagers, providing grim statistics about underage drinking and its results.