PDF Down the Drain

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Down
the
Drain
Description
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The hotly
anticipated book from
8220onof the all-time pop-culture
greats8221(New York magazine) that chronicles
her shocking life and unyielding determination to
not only survive but achieve her dreams.Julia Fox
is famous for many things her captivating
acting, such as her
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breakout role in the film Uncut Gems her
trendsetting style, including bleached eyebrows,
exaggerated eyeshadow, and cutout dresses her
mastery of social media, where she entertains and
educates her millions of followers. But all these
share the trait for which she is most famous
unabashedly and unapologetically being herself.
This commitment to authenticity has never been
more on display than in Down the Drain. With
writing that is both eloquent and accessible, Fox
recounts her turbulent path to cultural
supremacy her parents8217volatile relationship
that divided her childhood between Italy and New
York City and left her largely raising herself a
possessive and abusive drug-dealing boyfriend
whose torment continued even from within Rikers
Island her own trips to jail as well as to a
psychiatric hospital her work as a dominatrix
that led to a complicated entanglement with a
sugar daddy a heroin habit that led to New
Orleans trap houses and that she would kick only
after the fatal overdose of her best friend her
own near-lethal overdoses and the deaths of still
more friends from drugs and suicide an
emotionally explosive, tabloid-dominating romance
with a figure she dubs 8220ThArtist8221a
whirlwind, short-lived marriage and her trials as
a single parent striving to support her young
son. Yet as extraordinary as her story is, its
universality is what makes it so powerful. Fox
doesn8217tjust capture her improbable evolution
from grade-school outcast to fashion-world icon,
she captures her transition from girlhood to
womanhood to motherhood. Family and friendship,
sex and death, violence and love, money and
power, innocence and experience8212it8217s all
here, in raw, remarkable, and riveting detail.
More than a year before the book8217spublication
, Fox8217sdescription of it as 8220amasterpiec
e8221in a red carpet interview went viral. As
always, she was just being honest. Down the Drain
is a true literary achievement, as one-of-a-kind
as its author.