The hotly anticipated book from ΓÇ£one of the all-time pop-culture greatsΓÇ¥ (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 styleincluding bleached eyebrowsexaggerated eyeshadowand cutout dresses; her mastery of social mediawhere 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 accessibleFox recounts her turbulent path to cultural supremacy: her parentsΓÇÖ 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 explosivetabloid-dominating romance with a figure she dubs ΓÇ£The ArtistΓÇ¥; a whirlwindshort-lived marriage and her trials as a single parent striving to support her young son. Yet as extraordinary as her story isits universality is what makes it so powerful. Fox doesnΓÇÖt just capture her improbable evolution from grade-school outcast to fashion-world iconshe captures her transition from girlhood to womanhood to motherhood. Family and friendshipsex and deathviolence and lovemoney and powerinnocence and experienceΓÇöitΓÇÖs all herein rawremarkable and riveting detail. More than a year before the bookΓÇÖs publicationFoxΓÇÖs description of it as ΓÇ£a masterpieceΓÇ¥ in a red carpet interview went viral. As alwaysshe was just being honest. Down the Drain is a true literary achievementas one-of-a-kind as its author.