Part 1, Girlhood : Candy is dandy, liquor is quicker. Eight wrecked cars and one that got away / Pam Houston
Rum-soaked / Leah Odze Epstein
Forever thirteen / Susan Henderson
Living the dry life, on campus / Anna Klenke
My flask / Priscilla Warner
Part 2, Relationships : Here's to us! The days of wine and seltzer / Elissa Schappell
My first sober kiss / Adrienne Edenburn-MacQueen
The sweet smell of excess / Sari Botton
It. Must. Be. / Becky Sherrick Harks
Runner's high / Eva Tenuto
Part 3, Culture : from Baileys to Manischewitz. Ladies and gentlemen, the fabulous slur girls / Laurie Lindeen
Man-o-Manischewitz! / Daphne Merkin
Veni, vidi, bibi (I came, I saw, I drank) / Helene Stapinski
A Chinese American girl : drinking from east to west / Emma Kate Tsai
Mother of all sins / Asra Q. Nomani
Part 4, Family : Drinking the kool-aid. My father, my beer buddy / Ann Hood
Kids, thank you for pot smoking / Jacqueline Mitchard
My foreign legacy / Caren Osten Gerszberg
Like father, like daughter? / Liza Monroy
Under the influence / Joyce Maynard
What's the big deal? Lessons for schoolchildren and their parents / Laura Jofre
Part 5, Revelations : too much is barely enough. Half-past six / Kathryn Harrison
The baby shower / Lianne Stokes
"My name is Amy F." / Amy Ferris
The root cellar / Rita Williams
Drinking as genuine vocation / Jane Friedman.