
Sarah Hepola is the author of the bestselling memoir, Blackout. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, the Atlantic, Salon, and Elle. She is the host/creator of the Texas Monthly podcast on the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, “America’s Girls” and the co-conspirator of the weekly cultural podcast “Smoke ‘Em if You Got ‘Em.”
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BLACKOUT: Remembering The Things I Drank To Forget is the story of a woman stumbling into a new kind of adventure — the sober life she never wanted. This New York Times bestseller will resonate with anyone who has been forced to reinvent or struggled in the face of necessary change.
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