Klonopin Lunch

Klonopin Lunch (2012) by Jessica Dorfman Jones. In this memoir, Jones describes a couple of wild and crazy years in her life, in which she started pulling away from her husband, Andrew, took a musician named Gideon as a lover, experimented with a variety of drugs, and formed her own rock band called Throws Like a Girl. It was a period of tumultuous change in her life, and she describes it with verve and a little shame. The Klonopin lunch of the title is a chapter title, and it describes the lunch she had with her friend Edward, who fed her grilled cheese and calmed her down with a tablet of Klonopin, and then proceeded to set her straight. Jones has a spirited writing style and doesn't seem to hold anything back. Klonopin Lunch is a compulsively readable memoir that makes you wonder, "Can such things happen in this world?" Grade: B+