We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life [Paperback]

“We Are the Luckiestis a masterpiece. It’s the truest, most generous, honest, and helpful sobriety memoir I’ve read. It’s going to save lives.”
— Glennon Doyle, #1New York Timesbestselling author ofLove 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.CABestselling authorLaura McKowenis the founder and CEO of The Luckiest Club, a global web-based sobriety support community, and the host of theTell Me Something Truepodcast. She has been published inThe New York Times, and her work has been featured byThe Atlantic,The Wall Street Journal, theTodayshow, and more. She lives outside Boston with her daughter.

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“Laura McKowen’s fearless, eloquent, powerful story is an ode to living an awakened life. Yes, this is a book about getting (and staying) sober, but iló"