My Fair Junkie is Amy Dresner’s brutally funny, painfully honest memoir about addiction, humiliation, rehab, relapse, and clawing your way back to something like a life. Dresner writes with stand-up-comic sharpness and zero self-pity, turning her spiral — from coke and meth binges to a court-ordered community-service chain gang — into a story that’s both horrifying and disarmingly relatable.
The book follows her through detoxes, halfway houses, bad relationships, worse decisions, 12-step meetings, and the slow, awkward rebuilding of identity once the drugs are gone and you’re left with yourself. It’s caustic, raw, self-aware and unexpectedly tender — a memoir that never sanitises addiction but finds humour and humanity in the wreckage.
