The emotional trauma found in the descriptions and accounts in this book will connect to anyone living with and/or loving an alcoholic. Each chapter is named and related to something in a bar, i.e. "Dead Night, " "One for the Road, " "Keeping a Tab, " or "The Mourning After, " etc... Ultimately this is an inspirational story of emotional survival. Most of these narratives end with insight and advice on how to recover and forgive the alcoholic. Also highlighted is how living with three alcoholics has given me unique insight needed to reach young adults (whose lives have been ravaged by an alcoholic parent) in my role as a high school teacher in upstate New York.