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Down the Drain

By: Julia Fox
Narrated by: Julia Fox
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The bestselling memoir from “one of the all-time pop-culture greats” (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 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 parents’ volatile 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 “The Artist”; a 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 doesn’t just 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 experience—it’s all here, in raw, remarkable, and riveting detail.

More than a year before the book’s publication, Fox’s description of it as “a masterpiece” in 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.
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Such an authentic book, love that Julia herself read it. What a crazy life she’s lead, proving again and again to just be yourself and live authentically.

Authenticity and hope

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The story Julia Fox tells is incredibly personal, intimate, and generous. Through her words, you are compelled to embrace the uniqueness of your own imperfect, odd, and unglamorous life, while also feeling compassion for lives you may not always understand. Topics like drugs, sex, love, and fame are never used in a provocative way, or to sell an enviable rockstar’s lifestyle; instead, they are presented in all their complexity, unpolished, drenched in all the humanity the author brings to them.

I would buy the physical book just to highlight certain passages, but listening to the audiobook, read by the author herself, is an experience of its own. I highly recommend this audiobook to everyone, but especially to those who have been called weird, different, delusional or who may have wondered what’s wrong with their life.

For all the weirdos and delusionals

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Loved the book from A to Z. So many incredible strories that can resonate with many who have lived and even more with those who have lived traumas with big Ts. Fun, Love, Friendship, Abuse, Betrayal, Drugs, Mental health, Fame, you have it all.
Definitely recommend! <3

Amazing story

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