When Bill W. and his mates set up the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book and its tenets, they didn’t have some of the issues our lovely young - and even middle-aged - people face today. Yes, they had their own hardships to deal with including war, but if you want to get sober these days, you have to get sober in a world that is partly on fire. Housing is expensive and precarious. Dreams, including the author’s, have been put on hold during the pandemic and in some cases not resumed. How, in all the chaos, do recovering ❤️‍🩹 addicts or sober-curious people differentiate between the things they can and can’t control? This book has some of the answers, and deserves to be up there with books by Cat Marnell and Caroline Knapp, who also get namechecked.