"We were sitting in a coffee shop talking, looking at the view of
downtown Charlottesville, Virginia. This was ten years ago, and we
had both been off alcohol for more than a decade. We were
disagree-ing about the best way to stay sober when my mother said,
'I think we should write a book about alcoholism.'
"I sat back. 'We?'
"'Both of us. Two points of view.'" --from the Foreword
Double Double is a unique, dual memoir of alcoholism, a disease
that affects nearly 45 million Americans each year. People who
suffer from alcoholism as well as their families and friends know
that while it is possible to get sober, there is no one "right" way
to do this.
Now, award-winning mystery writer Martha Grimes and her son, Ken
Grimes, offer two points of view on their struggles with
alcoholism. In alternating chapters, they share their
stories--stories of drinking, recovery, relapse, friendship,
travel, work, success, and failure.
For Martha, it was about drinking martinis at home, sometimes with
friends, sometimes alone. For Ken, it was partying in bars and
clubs. Each hit bottom. Martha spent time doing outpatient
reha-bilitation, once in 1990 and again two years later. Ken began
twelve-step recovery. This candid memoir describes how different
both the disease and the recovery can look in two different
people--even two people who are mother and son.
Double Double is an intensely personal and illuminating book,
filled with insights, humor, a little self-deprecation, and a lot
of self-evaluation. Anyone who has faced alcoholism will identify
with parts of this book. All readers will find these pages
revealing, moving, and compelling.
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