Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up
by Selma Blair
Hardcover
From the publisher's website:
The first story Selma Blair Beitner ever
heard about herself is that she was a mean, mean baby. With her mouth
pulled in a perpetual snarl and a head so furry it had to be rubbed to
make way for her forehead, Selma spent years living up to her terrible
reputation: biting her sisters, lying spontaneously, getting drunk from
Passover wine at the age of seven, and behaving dramatically so that she
would be the center of attention.
Although Selma went on to
become a celebrated Hollywood actress and model, she could never quite
shake the periods of darkness that overtook her, the certainty that
there was a great mystery at the heart of her life. She often felt like
her arms might be on fire, a sensation not unlike electric shocks, and
she secretly drank to escape.
Over the course of this beautiful
and, at times, devastating memoir, Selma lays bare her addiction to
alcohol, her devotion to her brilliant and complicated mother, and the
moments she flirted with death. There is brutal violence, passionate
love, true friendship, the gift of motherhood, and, finally, the
surprising salvation of a multiple sclerosis diagnosis.
In a voice that is powerfully original, fiercely intelligent, and full of hard-won wisdom, Selma Blair’s Mean Baby is a deeply human memoir and a true literary achievement.
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