This is a dual author book by Martha Grimes and her son Ken Grimes about the two of them getting sober after drinking alcoholically for a number of years. Ken went the traditional AA route with meetings, a sponsor and the the simple slogans. Martha went with the Kolmac (I’d never heard of this) system of outpatient therapy and treatment. While this system relies heavily on psychological counseling it also uses drugs to relieve withdrawal symptoms and cravings.
I would have to say Ken is more comfortable in his sobriety than his mother. She still clings to a few screwball things such as not classifying alcoholism as a disease. And fantasizing about a good martini. It seemed strange to me that neither seemed to realize how much the other was drinking/drugging. I guess big denial of their own problems as well as each others. All in all, not a very interesting book.