We Are the Luckiest, Laura McKowen
We Are the Luckiest, Laura McKowen
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We Are the Luckiest
The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life

Author: Laura McKowen

Narrator: Laura McKowen

Unabridged: 7 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/07/2020


Synopsis

“We Are the Luckiest is a masterpiece. It’s the truest, most generous, honest, and helpful sobriety memoir I’ve read. It’s going to save lives.”
— Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love Warrior: A Memoir

What could possibly be “lucky” about addiction? Absolutely nothing, thought Laura McKowen when drinking brought her to her knees. As she puts it, she “kicked and screamed . . . wishing for something — anything — else” to be her issue. The people who got to drink normally, she thought, were so damn lucky.

But in the midst of early sobriety, when no longer able to anesthetize her pain and anxiety, she realized that she was actually the lucky one. Lucky to feel her feelings, live honestly, really be with her daughter, change her legacy. She recognized that “those of us who answer the invitation to wake up, whatever our invitation, are really the luckiest of all.”

Here, in straight-talking chapters filled with personal stories, McKowen addresses issues such as facing facts, the question of AA, and other people’s drinking. Without sugarcoating the struggles of sobriety, she relentlessly emphasizes the many blessings of an honest life, one without secrets and debilitating shame.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kelly on March 02, 2020

My daughter created a wall hanging for me a few years ago. I had taken it down in one room and today, the day after finishing Laura’s book, I grabbed it to hang in my living room. The quote on the wall hanging sums up this book more than anything I could try to put into words on my own. “A hero is o......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on February 01, 2020

This wasn't a bad book. My disappointment is that the description is inaccurate. Laura is a great writer and has a beautiful story to tell, but she never really delivers on the magic of sober life and why she truly feels lucky. Instead, the book speaks more of her past and her powerful story in over......more

Goodreads review by Amber on October 08, 2019

I was fortunate to see this book arrive as a review copy at the publication where I work. Since this appeared in my life at an exceedingly good time, I nabbed We Are the Luckiest and read it myself -- so it is as my own self, not as my editorial self, that I review it now. This book felt to me like a......more

Goodreads review by Lara on December 31, 2019

To say, I devoured this book is an understatement. I read it straight for 4 hours, had to take a break to work, and then went back to it as soon as I could and finished it in one day. I haven’t done this with a book in over 2 years and I read a lot of books. ⁣ ⁣ Laura McKowen is the most beautiful wri......more