Down the Drain
One day, my friend sent me an audio excerpt from "Down the Drain" via Instagram messenger. I was so shocked and riveted that my immediate assumption was that it was fiction. When he told me that no, it was actually Julia Fox's memoir, I knew immediately that I had to read it. "Down the Drain" is an appropriately fitting title for a chronicle of Fox's life up to this point, because I'm honestly surprised that she's still alive with everything she went through. It starts fittingly when she arrives in New York City as a child, exclaiming in her native Italian at the iconic sight of the Manhattan skyscrapers. What follows is a chronological account (mostly set in New York but occasionally in Italy) about learning how to adapt to a new country while growing up in a dysfunctional, toxic family. The accounts from her teenage years and her 20's are nothing short of jaw-dropping, to say the least. The circumstances she found herself in, including a d...
