Written when she was just twenty-three years old, Koren Zailckas’s memoir Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood, became an iconic, critically lauded, and New York Times bestselling account of her lost years as a teenaged blackout binge drinker.  Emotionally raw and propulsive, Smashed rendered a girlhood of terrifying near-misses and chaos into a memoir of striking clarity and bold, fresh insights; a lightning rod recognized both for its electric storytelling and as a guide for parents and teens grappling with the dangers of alcohol.

As Fury opens, Koren is on the way back to her childhood home, after a trip abroad to connect with a musician she’s fallen for ends in disaster.  In the confines of the suburbs, she attempts to pick up the thread of research for a book on women and anger that she began before the ill-fated visit to England.  But the heartbreak is paralyzing.  What she feels when she feels anything is rage—a fury so inflammatory and demanding that it’s as if the lid has been blown off Koren’s usually meek and accommodating personality. More…