cover image Sweet Mystery: A Southern Memoir of Family Alcoholism, Mental Illness, and Recovery

Sweet Mystery: A Southern Memoir of Family Alcoholism, Mental Illness, and Recovery

Judith Hillman Paterson. Noonday Press, $12 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-374-52499-9

This memoir of a troubled childhood in 1940s Alabama is ""engrossing,"" said PW. (June)