Chamberlain Bros and Heather King are thrilled to share with you a remarkable story of spiritual enlightenment and personal triumph from the depths of alcoholism.

parched: a memoir

Writer and comic Denis Leary says of Parched: "Dark, poignant, and hilariously funny, King's escapades evoke the demons that drive and haunt us all."

From sneaking drinks in small town New Hampshire to morning cocktails in
Boston dive bars (before law school classes, no less) King chronicles her drinking years with wit and clarity. Earning a law degree while fighting off hangovers, dusting cockroaches off her dirty piles of clothes and stale glasses of beer, King's journey toward redemption is both appalling and hilarious. And when it seems there is no escape, she is pulled from the abyss by the most unlikely of sources. Casting her lot with the rest of humanity at last, she learns that suffering leads
t o redemption, that pain leads to compassion for other people who are in pain, and, above all, that a sense of humor really, really helps.

"A hefty chaser of humor and redemption before last call" - L.A. Weekly

"Loaded with jokes and wicked anecdotes...Parched is a big-picture kind of memoir, literary and complete " --Robin Vaughan, Boston Phoenix

"A remarkable story of spiritual enlightenment from the depths of alcoholism. "
-- Bradley Quick Show, KRLA (Los Angeles)

"Pained adolescence...sordid drinking days...King avoids the cliches in favor of self-deprecating humor...terrifying, and equally human." - Claire Suddath, Nashville Scene

"...gives us all hope for embracing grace" - Arlene Helderman, National Catholic Reporter