2021-10-21 19:30:002021-10-21 19:30:00America/EdmontonFloat Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint TeaAlex Wood offers up a wildly disarming memoir on how he overcame his multiple addictions. As an alcoholic, drug-addicted comedian with tendencies to over-indulge and under-achieve since he was a teenager, Wood was on track to die young. But at age 29, he concocted a plan to quit not only alcohol and drugs, but everything else that he felt was holding him back: cigarettes, caffeine, red meat, dairy, sugar, social media, smartphones, porn, credit cards, nail-biting, social media, and gossip. With plenty of self-effacing wit and grace, Float like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea tears down the walls of shame surrounding addiction, providing an honest and open portrait of the stakes involved when one is willing to quit everything in order to survive.Virtual/OnlineLitFest Albertainfo@litfestalberta.org
Alex Wood offers up a wildly disarming memoir on how he overcame his multiple addictions. As an alcoholic, drug-addicted comedian with tendencies to over-indulge and under-achieve since he was a teenager, Wood was on track to die young. But at age 29, he concocted a plan to quit not only alcohol and drugs, but everything else that he felt was holding him back: cigarettes, caffeine, red meat, dairy, sugar, social media, smartphones, porn, credit cards, nail-biting, social media, and gossip. With plenty of self-effacing wit and grace, Float like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea tears down the walls of shame surrounding addiction, providing an honest and open portrait of the stakes involved when one is willing to quit everything in order to survive.
