AMERICA

America isn't just stressed.

America is coping.

With alcohol.

With shopping.

With gambling.

With debt.

With "treat yourself" delusion and productivity worship.

AMERICA: Alcohol & Bad Decisions: A National Trauma Response is a sharp, hilarious, painfully honest memoir-meets-social commentary for anyone who has ever looked around and thought:

"Is it just me... or is this whole thing not okay?"

In these pages, Gigi Wong breaks down the cultural chaos of late-stage empire with humor, clarity, and a nervous-system-level truth that hits you right in the chest. From productivity worship to emotional overdraft, from socially-approved dissociation to the "American Dream™" fine print-this book names what so many people feel, but can't quite say out loud.

It's not polished.

It's not performative.

It's real.

This isn't a self-help book.

It's a wake-up call.

And somehow, it's also a love letter.

Inside you'll find:

• Why alcohol is the most socially acceptable way to disappear

• How gambling sells hope back to people who are exhausted

• Why shopping became therapy in a society that won't provide real care

• The "Suffering Box" and the lie that pain is a credential

• Individuation, nervous system regulation, and the cost of becoming real

• Mutual aid, empire mechanics, and staying human with receipts

• Why the future is small, local, sacred-and already happening

If you've ever been called too sensitive, maybe you're not.

Maybe you're just awake.

And if you're reading this...

you're already free.