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. 'Intense and compelling' SUNDAY TIMES 'A gripping and powerful coming-of-age story'
TELEGRAPH 'A masterpiece' GREG JAMES BBC RADIO 1 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. 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 . 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 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.
