A Craving — Emily Arnold

It's a relief to see you looking yourself, her best friend said. Polly was shocked- who else had she seemed to be? The truth was devastating: She was a woman drinking around the clock, battling her husband, endangering her children, jeopardizing her career. And yet, there was no other way to get through the days, was there? Her terrible downward slide could stop only when she hit rock bottom and faced the hell of getting up again.Startling, compelling, clear-headed, eloquent. a rare book...instead of telling one person's tale, A CRAVING achieves the universality of any good fiction-Newsday