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Recommended Books for Family Members -- Memoirs

Drinking – A Love Story
by Caroline Knapp
(from the book's back cover) "It was love at first sight. The beads of moisture on a chilled bottle. The way the glasses clinked and the conversation flowed. Then it became obsession. The way she hid her bottles behind her lover's refrigerator. The way she slipped from the dinner table to the bathroom, from work to the bar. And then, like so many love stories, it all fell apart. Drinking is Caroline Knapp's harrowing chronicle of her twenty-year love affair with alcohol."
The Los Angeles Diaries
by James Brown
(from the book's back cover) "Plagued by the suicides of both his siblings, heir to alcohol and drug abuse, divorce, and economic ruin, novelist Jamest Brown lived a life clouded by addiction, broken promises, and despair. Beautifully written and limned with dark humor, these twelve deeply confessional, interconnected chapters address personal failure, heartbreak, the trials of writing for Hollywood, and the life-shatttering events that finally convinced Brown he must 'change or die'."
Parched
by Heather King
(from the book's back cover) "I didn't know that when it came to alcohol, I was bodily and mentally different from normal people. I didn't know that when that first drink entered my system, I was hardwired to want a second, and a third, and on to infinity. I didn't know that a craving had been triggered whereby I was bound to keep drinking until I got locked up in a mental institution, or landed in jail, or died."