Kerry Cohen PsyD LPC - Crazy for You: Breaking the Spell of Sex and Love Addiction

Cohens brutal honesty about her relentless request for companionship is refreshingly relatable.

Entertainment Weekly

Cohen recounts her harrowing litany of hookups through clear, poignant, spare-no-details prose.

Marie Claire

Raw, intimate, and brave, Lush tears apart the usual advice about drinking and addiction (guess what, AA isnt the only answer), and chronicles Cohens journey toward a healing that at first she can only imagine. Gorgeously written and audaciously intelligent, here is a controversial and compelling look at finding your own way back.

Caroline Leavitt, New York Times best-selling author of Is This Tomorrow and Pictures of You

Kerry Cohen applies her legendary wit and sagacity to womens often subtly destructive dance with alcohol. With great vulnerability and dynamic prose, Cohen examines her own descent into the bottle, its ruinous consequences, and her courageous fight to find her footing in her real life again. This is a story you wont soon forget.

Jillian Lauren, New York Times best-selling memoirist of Some Girls: My Life in a Harem and Everything You Ever Wanted

Holy mother of winefinally a woman wrestles the story of what it is really like to be a woman away from what weve been told we are supposed to be. Kerry Cohens Lush will light you up, crack you up, make you bawl, and most of all, allow you to breathe again. Im beyond thrilled to read a book where a woman tells the truth without falling into the sap hole of the sin-and-redemption narrative. There is no sin and redemption. Theres just our lives, and as Cohen reminds us one truth bomb at a time, they are messily gorgeous. Move over Mary Karr.

Lidia Yuknavitch, best-selling author of The Book of Joan and The Misfits Manifesto

I love this book. I am this book. Kerry Cohen has written a memoir that wrestles with the subtleties, the ambiguities, the sheer alluring, horrifying real-life mess of midlife alcohol addiction. For those of us wrestling with demonsand who isnt?Lush is a solace as powerful as red wine.

Claire Dederer, best-selling author of Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses

Unapologetic in that it offers no trite darkness to light narrative about alcoholism, Cohens book instead offers a sharp-eyed look at what it means to be a midlife female unable to cope with either personal demons or the heavy external social pressures placed on women. An intimate and unsparing book of self-reflection.

Kirkus Reviews

Very few people can write about teen girls sexual promiscuity with the candor, empathy, and intelligence Kerry Cohen does I think any girl who reads this will recognize at least one girl she knowsand that girl may be looking back at her in the mirror.

Rosalind Wiseman, New York Times best-selling author of Queen Bees and Wannabees and Boys, Girls, and other Hazardous Materials

As compassionate as it is enlightening, Kerry Cohens Dirty Little Secrets argues for female safety and desire, and provides a road map for authentically healthy, vital sexuality.

Jennifer Baumgardner, author of Look Both Ways, F em!, and Manifesta

Kerry Cohen has been thereand it shows in her empathy, her insight, and her remarkable ability to draw out the truthDirty Little Secrets busts the myths, breaks down walls, and takes us where we need to go to understand the private lives of so many young women today.

Hugo Schwyzer, PhD, Pasadena City College, coauthor of Beauty, Disrupted: The Carr Otis Story

Ms. Cohens Dirty Little Secrets is a perfect catalyst for mother/daughter discussions. It is a safe place to start a scary talk about this issue so relevant to young womenand young men At its heart, Dirty Little Secrets is a wake-up call. Settle in, relax, and embrace its shocking content.

New York Journal of Books

Serves as an engaging catalyst for discussions about a taboo issue.

Kirkus Reviews

A strong beginning to an important conversation. An important book for feminist and social science collections.

Library Journal

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