A fantastic, deeply personal memoir on addiction and codependency.

I'm not sure anything I say about this will quite do it justice - Aron writes deftly about her own personal experience of growing up with addiction within her immediate family, her relationship with K - a man she meets as a teenager and later becomes a heroin addict, the history of Al-Anon (the support group for family and friends of alcoholics) and her own experiences of the group, as well as slightly more general sections on love, codependency and how the two are much more complex when intertwined. These themes are all weaved together with a more "traditional" memoir about her depression, marriage and motherhood.

Given all the different themes this could have easily become confused and seemed like it was trying to achieve too much, but that never felt the case; in fact I found this pretty unputdownable. Highly recommended.