Alcoholism and its effects on one family's history are integral to the story being told in my novel, Shades of Darkness, Shades of Grace. The Pierson family portrayed in the book has suffered the blight of alcoholism for at least four generations, with two of the children, Kay and Paul, forced to confront their dependency. The point of this subplot is to not only illustrate the character's flaws, but to acknowledge that the problem of chemical dependency is a far-reaching one...
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