I ordered this book because I too am an adult child of an alcoholic. The book is a collection of letters written by the author about her relationship with her father an alcoholic and her relationship with her mother the woman who married him. I don't know where you would find this book in a book store, it is not fiction, it is not a biography or a autobiography, and it certainly not a self help book. The subject of the book spiked my interest, the writing did not!!