Lisa Kotin

My Confection (eBook, ePUB)

Odyssey of a Sugar Addict

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A funny, candid, and original coming-of-age story told through sugar addiction She doesn't drink or do drugs, but like millions of other Americans, Lisa Kotin has a substance abuse problem. Kotin is addicted to sugar. My Confection is a darkly funny and candid memoir of where sugar took this teenage mime when she left her San Francisco Bay Area home in pursuit of artistic greatness. From the strict macrobiotic house where she is kicked out for smuggling Snickers, to her early days of Overeaters Anonymous meetings where she is bewildered by the idea of submitting to a higher power, to the stylish shrink who suggests she figure out how many minutes of tennis equal the calories in one jelly donut, to the men she unwraps and consumes like cheap chocolate bars, Kotin careens from romantic disasters to caloric catastrophes. Original and surprisingly affecting, this portrait of a sugar addict has nothing to do with losing weight or getting fit but rather with coming out of the (sugar) closet, finding allies who understand, and learning how to live healthfully, in spite of her compulsion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780807069264
• Artikelnr.: 44519576

Autorenporträt

Lisa Kotin is a writer, director, actor, and performance artist based in Los Angeles. She graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and went on to perform original shows combining physical comedy, monologues, and short films in the United States and United Kingdom. Kotin's show Temporary Girl, which drew upon her experiences at 100+ temp jobs, is about a dysfunctional family as seen through the eyes of an office temp, and was adapted into a movie that Leonard Maltin praised as "bright and original, with the definite ring of truth."

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
CHAPTER 1
Macroneurotics
CHAPTER 2
Up the Yin Yang
CHAPTER 3
Belly of the Beast
CHAPTER 4
Shrink Rap
CHAPTER 5
Let the Bingeing Begin
CHAPTER 6
I Take the Cake
CHAPTER 7
Cookie Monster
CHAPTER 8
The First Bite
CHAPTER 9
Will Work for Sugar (and Sex)
CHAPTER 10
My Art
CHAPTER 11
Walking Chocolate Bar
CHAPTER 12
On Broadway
CHAPTER 13
A Womb of My Own
CHAPTER 14
As You Don’t Like It
CHAPTER 15
Endgame
CHAPTER 16
Drama of the Gifted Child
CHAPTER 17
Cakewalk
CHAPTER 18
Psych Major
CHAPTER 19
Sugar Mountain
CHAPTER 20
Freefall
CHAPTER 21
Three Decades Later There Will (Still) Be Sugar
Acknowledgments