Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood is a memoir written in 2005 by American writer Koren Zailckas and published by Viking Press. The book has spent more...

writer and memoirist. Her debut, Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood, was released in 2005 by Viking Penguin and became a New York Times bestseller. Zailckas...

from their girlhoods. During the war Ethel was 17 and remained in London where she witnessed the death of her family, who were killed by a German doodlebug...