Presents an autobiographical memoir in which Jack London recalls his first taste of alcohol, his first experience being drunk, and later the worst of his alcoholic periods.
Contains nine essays in which the authors debate issues related to alcohol and alcohol abuse, discussing whether alcoholism is a disease, the efficacy of Alcoholics Anonymous, college policies toward drinking, and other topics.
His friendship with two Hispanic students offers fifteen-year-old Mick an alternative to the drunken savagery of his brother and the narrow thinking of his Irish-American neighborhood in Boston.
