

Laurette was only a high school freshman when she started drinking and doing drugs. Her father absent, her mother emotionally abusive, Laurette joined a gang for survival. By nineteen she was in jail. After being released, Laurette discovered she had a gift for cooking, and over...

"A moving account of six former alcoholics and Betty Ford graduates--among them a teacher, a housewife and a gang member--with commentary from Ford herself."-- Self "There was a lot of drinking and codependence in my extended family. Sitting in my jail cell, I thought about how...