Two things have gotten me on the road to recovery again...one was drinking my own piss last week, thinking it was a jar filled with "light" beer...another was reading this book...
What a fucking title...love it...i can relate being a drunk dad myself...a drunk parent...if you are a drunk parent this book is for you...you'll be nodding your head like your listening to a fucking dre beat in stone cold recognition of how much of a fucking idiot you are...for instance there's a chapter on how to get rid of your previous nights bottles so that your spouse doesn't find out you were drinking...with the use of strollers and diaper bags this drunk mom did a damn fine job getting rid of the evidence...finding ways to mask your alcoholic breath with perfumes and mouthwash...i use organic whole garlic cloves myself...the first half of the book is like the beginning of a binge session...filled with good times and funny moments...and then she begins to spin further and further out into space...blacking out and getting raped...taking more and more chances at home by secretly drinking...putting her baby at risk, her boyfriend on the edge...finally checking into a rehab...coming out and relapsing really bad...losing her family...thinking of suicide...fuck this book got serious like a bad hangover...i felt like vomiting after this read...she just couldn't pull herself out of the black hole of drinking...kept sinking down and down...she could not find the light...it was a pretty fucking hard read for me...and it took alot of courage for her to tell all in this memoir...but like i said if you're a parent with an alcohol addiction this fucker may just be the splash of cold water to your face that you need...i give this, 4 out of 5 bottles of beer on the wall on the telepathic radar of love...