Some of the Words are Theirs : A Memoir of an

Some of the Words Are Theirs is far more than the tale of an adult child of an alcoholic. Jensenas story chronicles how he came to widen the lens through which he saw his past, removing the filters of the victim and abandoned child, allowing him to see events as significant primarily in the meaning we choose to give them.

William L. White is a Senior Research Consultant at Chestnut Health Systems / Lighthouse Institute. He is author of the award-winning book, Slaying the Dragon: The History of Addiction Treatment and Recovery in America. George H. Jensen is professor and chair of the Department of Rhetoric and Writing at University of Arkansas, Little Rock. His many book publications include Storytelling in Alcoholics Anonymous.

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. xiii
Storytelling	p. 1
Memories, First and Last	p. 17
A Father Abandoned
Short Timers	p. 25
The Family Portrait	p. 29
Conjectures	p. 33
The Village	p. 36
The Business Trip	p. 41
Studying Alcoholics	p. 50
The Family Archives	p. 55
Enough of Paradise	p. 63
The Loss of Certainty	p. 69
A Mother's Sense of Place
Appalachia	p. 79
The Separation	p. 87
The Manhood Project	p. 96
The Image of the Mother	p. 105
Coming of Age	p. 109
Tales of My Father	p. 118
Normalcy	p. 124
A Lost Place	p. 129
Photographs	p. 139
An Only Child's Brother
Childhood Strategies	p. 169
Different Paths	p. 176
A Letter	p. 185
The Death of a Family	p. 195
Many Lives	p. 207
Searching for the Father
Notes on Graduate School	p. 219
A Family	p. 233
Mid-Life	p. 241
The Land of My Father	p. 246
Heading Home	p. 253
Finding My Father	p. 258
Cars	p. 269
A Letter to My Sons	p. 275
A Brief Sermon on Love	p. 297
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Some of the Words are Theirs : A Memoir of an Alcoholic Family

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