All Fall Down Free PDF Download
2014
Allison Weiss has a great job ... a handsome husband ... an adorable daughter ... and a secret. Allison Weiss is a typical working mother, trying to balance a business, aging parents, a demanding daughter, and a marriage. But when the website she develops takes off, she finds herself challenged to the point of being completely overwhelmed. Her husbands becoming distant, her daughters acting spoiled, her father is dealing with early Alzheimers, and her mothers barely dealing at all. As she struggles to hold her home and work life together, and meet all of the needs of the people around her, Allison finds that the painkillers she was prescribed for a back injury help her deal with more than just physical discomfort--they help her feel calm and get her through her increasingly hectic days. Sure, she worries a bit that the bottles seem to empty a bit faster each week, but its not like shes some Hollywood starlet partying all night, or a homeless person whos lost everything. Its not as if she has an actual problem. However, when Allisons use gets to the point that she can no longer control--or hide--it, she ends up in a world she never thought shed experience outside of a movie theater: rehab. Amid the teenage heroin addicts, the alcoholic grandmothers, the barely-trained recovery coaches, and the counselors who seem to believe that one mode of recovery fits all, Allison struggles to get her life back on track, even as shes convincing herself that shes not as bad off as the women around her. With a sparkling comedic touch and tender, true-to-life characterizations, All Fall Down is a tale of empowerment and redemption and Jennifer Weiners richest, most absorbing and timely story yet--