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always a sucker for a good teen drunk novel, and when I heard this one was set in Berkeley an inexplicably underused setting I couldn't resist, I was a little disappointed, The Berkeley setting was vague and totally lacking in atmosphere, And GampT swilling heroine Nikki is an annoying overachiever, But she certainly can drink! She She engages in all sorts of drunken hijinks, wrecking havoc on her life, her friends, and family although the best stuff happens in her blackouts.
She even comes within a few beers of the DTs! Of course, novels of this sort must preach the AA line, but the sermons are neither excessive nor overly annoying.
Not bad. Niki is the star of her high

school softball team and an honors student, But her nighttime binges with alcohol escalate, and her world collapses into a hazy blur of selfdestruction, cutting off even those she loves, I found this book about a teenager's realization that she is an alcoholic, to be very real and surprisingly well written, The protagonist who's name I cannot recall is star softball player and popular and accomplished student, When her alcohol use starts spinning out of control she finds herself alone and abandoned by everything and everyone except for a sympathetic coach, Impacted me as a teenager but have not read it since, Reread from/to/. Very well done novel on teen alcoholism, Shows that alcoholics can be quite successful in many waysthe main character is a star softball pitcher and gets the highest SAT scores in her class, She also drinks to the point of blacking out,

Reread from/to/, An eyeopening novel about a highfunctioning alcoholic teenager,yearold Niki Etchens, Readable, informative, not an afterschool special, There's a lot of information about what alcoholism means, and the author doesn't whitewash Niki's life, The book was published in, and I don't know if the culture was just different then, but I was shocked how often Niki drove drunk even driving her friends home, with rarely anyone blinking an eye.
Couldn't believe she never had an accident, Niki is a star pitcher on the girls' softball team, and there's some reflection on the devaluation of girls' sports and female athletes compared to their male equivalents.
I appreciated the role Niki's friendship with her best friend, Martha, played in the novel more than any other part of Niki's life, it's this friendship that shows a clear picture of the harms of Niki's drinking.
The book is set in Berkeley, with mentions of the UC and Carmel, Linnea Due is an author and journalist from Berkeley, California, She holds a graduate degree in criminology, .