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    Double Double: A Dual Memoir of Alcoholism
    Double Double: A Dual Memoir of Alcoholism
    Double Double: A Dual Memoir of Alcoholism
    Audiobook6 hours

    Double Double: A Dual Memoir of Alcoholism

    Written by Martha Grimes and Ken Grimes

    Narrated by Kate Reading and Holter Graham

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    “A thoughtful twist on the recovery memoir” (O, The Oprah Magazine) that explains the different ways bestselling author Martha Grimes and her son, Ken Grimes, recognized and overcame their addictions, now with two new chapters—one from each author.

    In this introspective and groundbreaking memoir of addiction, mystery writer Martha Grimes and her son, Ken Grimes, present two different, often intersecting points of view. Chapters alternate between Ken’s and Martha's voices and experiences in 12-step program and outpatient clinics.

    Written with honesty, humor, a little self-deprecation, and a lot of self-evaluation, Double Double is “an honest, moving, and readable account of the drinking life and the struggle for recovery. This brave and engaging memoir is a gift” (Kirkus Reviews).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJun 4, 2013
    ISBN9781442362543
    Author

    Martha Grimes

    Bestselling author Martha Grimes is the author of more than thirty books, including twenty-two Richard Jury mysteries. She is also the author of Double Double, a dual memoir of alcoholism written with her son. The winner of the 2012 Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Award, Grimes lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

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    • 5/5
      I did find Martha to be imperious some of the time, but I appreciate the honesty. Quit lit's often about how great sober life is versus how terrible it was when you were drinking. I like that both Martha and her son describe it as being more complicated. I can see how some readers could view this perspective as negative, but I thought it was refreshing. Ken comes off as much more of an optimist than his mother.
    • 4/5
      Having one alcoholic in the family is bad enough, but it seldom stops there. Sadly enough, alcoholism is a never-ending problem for many families, one that can devastate them for generations. In Double Double: A Dual Memoir of Alcoholism, popular mystery writer Martha Grimes and her son Ken very frankly share their own struggles to get, and remain, sober. The pair, in alternate chapters and several "conversations," look both backward and forward in their lives, revisiting the times and events during which they became addicts, their struggles to survive their addictions, the manner in which they finally got themselves sober, what their lives are like today, and what their hopes are for the future. Despite living in the same house during the worst of all of this, Martha and Ken managed to hide their problems from each other, or were so caught up in their individual struggles with addiction, that neither was much aware of what the other was experiencing. Ken, in particular, appears to have been a master of deception, the rather typical teenager who easily managed to hide his real life from his mother. Martha, on the other hand, made alcohol such a constant part of her everyday life that the lifestyle seemed perfectly normal to her and her son. There was no need for Martha to hide her drinking from Ken because it really did not seem to be all that unusual to either of them.Despite the similarities in their stories, what are likely to intrigue readers most are the pair's different approaches to attaining and maintaining sobriety. Ken is a true believer in AA's Twelve-Step approach, while Martha seems to have been so put off by the program's more overtly religious aspects that she could not tolerate the meetings. She preferred, instead, the clinical approach but is frank about that approach’s limitations and the ease in which some alcoholics manipulate both their therapy and their therapists. Double Double, despite Martha's assertion that its readers are all likely to be wondering whether they themselves are alcoholics, is filled with revealing insights that nondrinkers and social drinkers will find useful. Certainly, some readers will realize that they are on the brink of similar problems - and others will find that they have already crossed that line. But even nondrinkers who have only experienced alcoholism second-hand via observation of a distant family member or friend will come away from the book with a better understanding of the problem (Martha only reluctantly calls it a disease) than they had going in. Bottom Line: Double Double is a very readable and honest memoir in which its two authors are not afraid to embarrass themselves and each other. What they have to say about alcoholism is important, and their willingness to expose themselves this way will help others to solve, or even avoid, a similar experience in their own lives.
    • 3/5
      Martha comes across grumpy, cynical, unempathetic & the only one with all the answers - someone with a permanent hangover. Although admirably "dry" for 20 years through her own willpower (and a couple of hospitalizations which she doesn't describe at all), she ends the book with definitive renouncement of the substance which was the only way she felt she could connect "not simply with other people but with myself and with the world."Ken, her beleguered yet uncomplaining son, displays a much more human and multifaceted person who is open to the world as his reformed alcoholic parents (long divorced) are closed to it. One difference may be that has gone through AA and believes in the saving grace of the "higher power".Regardless, we are shown many approaches to solving or ignoring the "disease" (Martha & Ken cannot agree on even this concept) as the two of them bump through their separate lives & interesting lessons from similarly-challenged others.