Deciding To Live Sober In My Alcoholic World
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About the Book
Her personal story is a searing account of a painful childhood, followed by two divorces. She is the survivor of sexual abuse by her first husband. In this important book, Ms. Miller combines funny and sad stories into a riveting memoir, filled with insights from her life experiences in an alcoholic family. Ms. Miller writes from her heart. She tells what positive decisions she made, and why. This book is a “must read” for adult children of alcoholics, and female victims of abuse.
About the Author
Kathleen Miller is an adult child of an alcoholic who decided to break the cycle at age 10, when her drunken father was viciously beaten nearly to death after closing a bar in Detroit, Michigan. All three of her siblings are alcoholics, as were her father and grandparents. She grew up on a lake in Michigan, sailing, swimming and ice skating. At age 21, Ms. Miller moved to Washington State to climb mountains and stayed. She and her ex-husband have successfully raised a healthy, athletic teenage daughter. Ms. Miller lives in Eastern Washington and has several novels in mind. This is her first book.