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Unshaming

A Memoir of Recovery, Relapse and What Comes After · McClelland & Stewart · 2026
Globe and Mail Bestseller

More than a decade after Drunk Mom, Jowita returns to addiction to ask what happens after the supposed happy ending. Unshaming is a raw, darkly funny examination of relapse, recovery, motherhood and the shame that keeps people trapped in destructive cycles.

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Monster

Anvil Press · 2024

A dark, sexually explicit novel of female rage, hunger, motherhood, immigrant trauma and revenge. As a marriage collapses, a woman confronts the thing growing inside her—the “Monster” created from longing, displacement and years of sexual and romantic trauma.

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Possessed

Dundurn / Rare Machines · 2022

An erotic, darkly funny novel about romantic obsession, mental illness and the supernatural. Consumed by unrequited love, Josephine travels to a former quarantine island in the Adriatic Sea, where obsession begins to look increasingly like possession.

Adapted for the screen.

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GUY

Wolsak & Wynn · 2016 · Bestselling novel

Guy is successful, attractive, casually racist, homophobic, misogynistic and almost completely incapable of recognizing any of those things about himself. A darkly funny novel told from inside the head of the kind of man women know all too well.

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Drunk Mom

Doubleday Canada · 2013 · International bestseller

Jowita’s first memoir chronicles her relapse into alcoholism after the birth of her son and her struggle toward recovery. Raw, funny and deliberately uncomfortable, Drunk Mom became an international bestseller.

Adapted into the feature film Imperfecta, directed by Natalia Smirnoff and starring Marcela Mar and Javier Drolas, forthcoming in 2027.

Originally published by Doubleday Canada. Also published in Australia by HarperCollins and in the United States by Penguin.

Spanish edition forthcoming in Colombia, 2027.
Polish edition forthcoming in Poland, 2027.

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