{"product_id":"down-the-drain-by-julia-fox-9781668011515","title":"Down the Drain","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe hotly anticipated book from \"one of the all-time pop-culture greats\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e magazine) that chronicles her shocking life and unyielding determination to not only survive but achieve her dreams.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJulia Fox is famous for many things: her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film \u003ci\u003eUncut Gems\u003c\/i\u003e; 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 \u003ci\u003emost\u003c\/i\u003e famous: unabashedly and unapologetically being herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis commitment to authenticity has never been more on display than in \u003ci\u003eDown the Drain\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYet 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMore 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. \u003ci\u003eDown the Drain\u003c\/i\u003e is a true literary achievement, as one-of-a-kind as its author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47642841776364,"sku":"9781668011515","price":53.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/110fef43a5f49365d5d2419b43887296.jpg?v=1779161492","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/down-the-drain-by-julia-fox-9781668011515","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}