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, but there is something so magnetic about Laura Cathcart Robbins’ prose and the way she takes you—your hand and hers, your body seemingly in her body—through her journeys of substance abuse recovery and divorce as a rich Black woman living in the very white, very lavish Hollywood Hills. This week, I had the privilege of hearing her talk about her newand its significance to the genre colloquially known as “quit lit,” or books about sobriety.
Having the entire reputation of your race judged by your actions as an individual is a weight that so many people of color carry across class lines. From the very first pages, her book is filled with the most heartbreaking of confessions: “The fucked-up truth is that being loaded is the only way I can continue to show up for my family. Loaded equals numb. And numb makes me bulletproof.”
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