It carries so much honesty and life within it, and it’s a beautiful tribute to the women in Fox’s life and the people whom she has lost. Down the Drain isn’t exactly a literary masterpiece – the prose is high-drama, and often sags into cliché – but it is, at least, a gripping and powerful coming-of-age story that exposes the terrible repercussions of childhood neglect, society’s routine exploitation of the female body and the hollowness of celebrity.

The only way to escape the impossible binary of bad-girl train wreck or good-girl survivor is to ignore both labels entirely and follow instead your own heat and light.Julia Fox: renowned actress, artist, fashion trailblazer, muse, and now literary talent, is ready to tell her story, her way. She wrote about how in middle school she spent most of her days with her new best friend "Ella," who lived with a mom who was often drunk.

million followers anecdotes from a high-profile romance or offer a down-to-earth tour of her relatively modest New York City apartment. It could be tempting to rubberneck at the memoir’s dizzying array of salacious moments, which Fox recounts with a winsome combination of humor, gusto, and insouciance—how many people can say that they were permanently banned from Bloomingdale’s by the age of 12? Ir jei manot, kad įdomiausias dalykas apie Fox yra tai, kad ji kažkiek deitino Kanye West, tai oi, toli gražu.It's not an easy listen, but for fans or people just interested in hearing more I think there is a little something for everyone even if I was left wanting more. Her depictions of hallways of dildos, explosive fights with exes, sex, references to her favourite music and films, and memories with girl friends. For me, the most harrowing and heartbreaking part of the novel was the descriptions of the various abusive relationships Fox has experienced. You think you've read it all, and then there's Julia Fox, whose debut memoir proved that reading can be a physical activity—one of us lost our breath about 100 pages in.