Today is Day 365 for Nils Murray. Tonight he gets his one-year chip, and his wife promised to reconsider their separation once he made it a year sober. All he has to do is show up to his son’s sixth birthday party with the cake and without a drink.
Then his father announces he’s selling the house out from under them. His sponsee wants a lot more than advice. His job starts falling apart one meeting at a time. Even the birthday cake goes wrong.
Nils thinks he’s working the program. He’s about to learn that not drinking was only the start, and that the recovery story he tells at every meeting leaves out the worst parts, including the ones he can’t remember.
Drink is a darkly funny novel about addiction, fathers and sons, and the stories we tell ourselves so we can stay the hero. From Sean Platt, co-author of Yesterday’s Gone.
