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Memoir•Recovery•Family Drama
Exactly Like My Father
“The worst thing anyone said about him
was that she was just like him.”
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About the Book
The second book in The Daughter of a Drunk takes on the sentence adult children of alcoholics dread most — that they will turn out exactly like the parent they spent years trying to escape. Howard Kane writes about inherited patterns without excusing them, and about the daily, unglamorous work of proving that sentence wrong. It is written for anyone who grew up listening for a car in the driveway.
What Makes It Special
Painfully Honest
Written without flinching and without self-pity.
Hope Without Tidiness
Recovery here is slow, and treated as such.
You Will Recognise Someone
Family dynamics rendered with real accuracy.
Plain, Direct Writing
Clear enough to read on a difficult day.
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Book Summary
A fear that arrives in your own voice.
A pattern nobody chose.
The work of breaking it anyway.
Exactly Like My Father is a raw, hopeful book about growing up with an alcoholic parent, and about refusing to accept inheritance as a verdict.
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This is a hard book that never makes hardship the point. Kane writes about inherited harm with enough clarity that the hope at the end feels earned rather than offered.
OVERALL RATING4.4 / 5
What We Loved
Unflinching honesty
A genuinely useful perspective
Hope that feels earned
What Could Be Better
Heavy going in places
Some repetition between chapters
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