“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 disagreeing 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
rehabilitation, 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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