Bar on Every Corner

by Jack Erdmann

Hardcover

About the author

In his stunning new autobiography, Whiskey's Children, author and lecturer Jack Erdmann recounts, with brutal honesty, his years of alcoholism. A former salesman, Erdmann's descent into the disease began at the tender age of thirteen and lasted through a broken marriage and a badly damaged career before he finally became sober. Twenty years later, Jack has produced a harrowing, wildly funny, expertly delivered narrative that gives the reader an intimate glimpse into the soul of a fourth-generation alcoholic. Whiskey's Children tells the story of Jack's amazing journey from the incredible anguish of addiction and self-loathing to the miracle of recovery and his newly forged relationship with God. Indeed, he is able to locate the hidden places in readers' hearts where the non-stop grief and misery live-those secret places where everything is known but nothing is acknowledged.

Jack has been speaking in public for over twenty years. From the smallest local meeting to a standing ovation at St. Louis University, he has delivered on-point, privileged information that strikes directly at the core of the sick family. His message is powerful, frighteningly honest, and occasionally very funny-his intention is to make healing and redemption as real to his audience as they are to him. He offers hope to the suffering family and an accessible warning to the young. Whiskey's Children is borne from the same spring as his lectures.and has found the same success. In fact, Publisher's Weekly writes of the "emotional honesty and precision" found within the pages and calls the book "a powerful source of healing." In all likelihood, alcoholism affects someone you know-this novel just might offer a new understanding and a new hope.