Tag Archive: ACoA

Perfect Daughters by Robert Ackerman (Review)

Perfect Daughters by Robert J. Ackerman is a non-fiction book that reports the results of a survey of more than a thousand adult daughters of alcoholics.

Fierce by Barbara Robinette Moss (Review)

A review of Fierce by Barabara Robinette Moss. Moss comes from poverty and chronicles her struggles as a single mother trying to achieve stability in all facets of her life and having to learn what that means each step of the way.

Dear Dad by Louie Anderson (Review)

A review of Dear Dad by Louie Anderson. This memoir (he has written several) is a series of letters that Anderson wrote to his alcoholic father nine years after his father’s death.

Forgiving Our Parents, Forgiving Our Selves (Review)

A review of Forgiving Our Parents, Forgiving Our Selves by James A. Stoop and David Masteller. The focus of the book is forgiveness. The authors are careful to distinguish forgiveness from forgetting. Forgetting is not a requirement, but forgiveness sets the adult child free.

Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (Review)

A review of Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri. The connecting thread of all short stories in this book is that they are about Bengali immigrants to America and their struggles to honour their heritage and accept their new circumstances.