Table of Contents
Part 1
1 Family Planning on Ecstasy 3
2 Stop Drinking When Your Lips Go Numb 24
3 Sylvia Plath Put Her Head in the Oven over This Shit 42
4 Playing House in the Suburbs with Captain Morgan 61
5 Three a.m. Ideas 78
6 Rocketship Rock-On 93
Part 2
7 Failure That Isn't Funny 111
8 Nothing Left to Hide Now 125
9 Who's the Sickest in the Room? 139
10 Maintenance Whiskey 159
11 I Found God in a Leaf Blower, and I Fucking Hate Leaf Blowers 186
Part 3
12 There Are Three Types of Mothers in the World-I Am None of Them 197
13 Failure That Isn't Funny: Sober Edition 216
14 The Childhood I Could No Longer Blame 233
15 What the Hell Is "Soul Work"? 259
16 In the Blood of Our Mothers 274
17 If I Knew the Way 291
Acknowledgments 309
Interview with Janelle Hanchett by Janelle Hanchett 311