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Down the Drain
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The hotly anticipated book from “one of the all-time pop-culture greats” (New York magazine) that chronicles her shocking life and unyielding determination to not only survive but achieve her dreams.
Julia Fox is famous for many things: her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film Uncut Gems; her trendsetting style, including bleached eyebrows, exaggerated eyeshadow, and cutout dresses; her mastery of social media, where she entertains and educates her millions of followers. But all these share the trait for which she is most famous: unabashedly and unapologetically being herself.
This commitment to authenticity has never been more on display than in Down the Drain. With writing that is both eloquent and accessible, Fox recounts her turbulent path to cultural supremacy: her parents’ volatile relationship that divided her childhood between Italy and New York City and left her largely raising herself; a possessive and abusive drug-dealing boyfriend whose torment continued even from within Rikers Island; her own trips to jail as well as to a psychiatric hospital; her work as a dominatrix that led to a complicated entanglement with a sugar daddy; a heroin habit that led to New Orleans trap houses and that she would kick only after the fatal overdose of her best friend; her own near-lethal overdoses and the deaths of still more friends from drugs and suicide; an emotionally explosive, tabloid-dominating romance with a figure she dubs “The Artist”; a whirlwind, short-lived marriage and her trials as a single parent striving to support her young son. Yet as extraordinary as her story is, its universality is what makes it so powerful. Fox doesn’t just capture her improbable evolution from grade-school outcast to fashion-world icon, she captures her transition from girlhood to womanhood to motherhood. Family and friendship, sex and death, violence and love, money and power, innocence and experience—it’s all here, in raw, remarkable, and riveting detail.
More than a year before the book’s publication, Fox’s description of it as “a masterpiece” in a red carpet interview went viral. As always, she was just being honest. Down the Drain is a true literary achievement, as one-of-a-kind as its author.
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Down the Drain
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Salvador –
No he podido parar de leerlo, increíble. Hacia mucho que no me enganchaba así un libro.
Todd –
I read this so fast. It’s a wild ride of a story , definitely recommend reading!
Seyhan Ramos –
I kept hearing about how good this book is. The only thing I knew about Julia prior was the Kanye thing and I don’t even follow Kanye. So glad I read this. Non stop entertaining and wow the life she’s lived. Great book.
Maxine –
Loved it and love Julia you go girl
Carley Lake –
Ughh I’m sad this book is over. Thank you for sharing it all—your highs and lows and your joy. Couldn’t put this on down. Now to go buy some latex and dark eyeliner…
NotTammy –
The ultimate sex symbol for women. Julia Fox completely devastated me in this book. I liked her style and public persona, but all that seems really small compared to the dimension of the story of her life and who she actually is. Amazing. Finished the book in three days.
Lydia –
This was a masterpiece. I want to immediately read it again from the beginning. I am not usually a reader of memoirs but this book is so important and I’m grateful I came across it.
Amazon Customer –
Julia tells all in this book and makes you feel like you’re sitting next to her while she’s telling you her most intimate truths. Great read, couldn’t put it down. Bravo, Julia!
avid reader –
It’s hard to keep reading chapter after chapter of so many horrible life choices, awful physical and sexual abuse that she barely acknowledges as abuse, and chaos that constantly envelops Julia Fox wherever she goes. I thinks she’s a good writer, but I had trouble ignoring so many repetitive adjectives and her blatant disregard for the way almost everyone in her life including her acts so flippant and abusive. It’s strange too how she goes from her family being homeless, to somehow being able to steal hundreds of dollars from her father regularly, to flying back and forth from Italy, to publishing her first book, to famous around New York, to nationally famous after Kanye and all this while being severely drug addicted. It’s like there’s never any real transition…I don’t know, she writes well; it’s just that the craziness of her life and the often repeated mistakes of her life become exhausting to read about and it’s hard to imagine how she’s actually lived it. This book is worth a read, but it’s eccentric to say the least and I’m torn between giving this 2 stars or 4 so I’ll settle and give it 3 as a compromise.
Oliver Wefel –
Fantastisch
cheftanya –
While Julia Fox is mostly known for dating Kanye West, she is an artist in her own right. I would describe her as a “multimedia” artist. She has done photography, drawings, “art books” along the lines of zines, and last but not least, FASHUN (OMG Fashun TV show, check it out. Im hoping it gets picked up for a 2nd season!!)
She is a great storyteller and allegedly wrote this book independently without a ghostwriter. She describes her life and experiences in a vivid, funny, scary, sexy, and SAD way that hooks you into reading the book and easily finds that you can’t put it down.
As someone who strives to have a life of character and integrity, I struggle with “supporting” Julia. Like Kanye, I find myself doing my best to separate the artist from the art.
Before reading this book, I took umbrage with Julia and the way she acts. After reading this book, I have a much better understanding of WHY she would make the life choices she has or said/says the horrible things she says.
****Spoilers from here on ******
She comes from a VERY dysfunctional childhood, her parents did not do a remotely good job at being parents and did not provide for her a life of structure, stability, love and safety. She states several times in the book that she shouldn’t be alive after the few times she almost died and that is very much true. Her relationship with men is VERY convoluted due to her beauty. Another thing she cites and recognizes. That if she didn’t look like the absolutely gorgeous woman she is on the outside, most of the men in her life that have provided for her and she would not have gotten away with so much. Its sad and insight on how “pretty ppl have problems too” AND she can never be sure that men like her for her.
I DEF recommend this book and devoured it in about 2 days (I’m ADHD and read rather slow). Im hoping she will write another soon
Kat –
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GOOD SUMMER READ
barbara –
so good