No one expects the police to knock on the million-dollar, two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac housewife. I originally quit drinking with that sort of dogmatic thinking, believing the onus of my sobriety was on how well I did or didn’t follow the program, or the story I told about myself. With no sign of a break-in, no history of marital problems, and the naïve belief that these things sometimes just happen, Stefanie Rabinowitz's family prepared to bury the 29-year-old wife and mother.

While the title suggests a simple autobiographical autopsy of motherhood marred by alcoholism, Bydlowska's memoir delivers far more - a human portrait of the disease. There were two events that occurred around that time: One, I had a minor bike accident while riding drunk and two, my partner threatened to leave me. A best seller in its native Canada, Drunk Mom is a gripping, brutally honest memoir of motherhood in the shadow of alcoholism.In her best-selling memoir North of Normal, Cea wrote with grace about her unconventional childhood - her early years living in a tipi in Alberta with her pot-smoking, free-loving counterculture family.

Many applauded me for the courage to be so brutally honest (courage that was debatable, at least to me). Eventually, we walked along the water, and as the sky turned from purple to blue, we started seeing the overeager morning folk: joggers, a lone student on bicycle and moms pushing strollers. That glorious, intoxicated morning is the perfect summary of my twenties, especially on days when I try to figure out why now, at 34, I’m such a wimp about being up early.

He added that it was 'inevitable' Tilby will be 'severely affected' by her son's death for the rest of her life. Now, with courage, she reveals how she managed to begin the long journey toward sobriety and unexpectedly finding new love.

Max doesn't remember his mother, who was murdered by burglars before they emigrated from Beirut to New Jersey. At Johns Hopkins, the doctors harvested cells from her cervix without her permission and distributed them to labs around the globe, where they were multiplied and used for a diverse array of treatments. Yet no one ever questions alcohol’s ubiquity—in fact, the only thing ever questioned is why someone doesn’t drink.

If someone is being thrown to the wolves – even if someone is throwing herself to the wolves – it is not my job to protect them. And when we came out of the bar, the sun was still hitting the snow, making everything look like an overexposed photograph. It made me crazy thinking that I was missing something by staying home with a demanding and boring — yes, boring — infant.