Needed fictional book about alcoholism & abuse, must be simple but adult

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My sister is separated from her abusive, alcoholic husband and I am looking for a good book for her to read on the subject, but a fiction.

She is Deaf and has some trouble grasping really complicated stories or language, so it needs to be simple but still geared toward either adults or teens.

Any suggestions?

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The Lost Weekend, can’t remember the author’s name. Was also a famous movie in the '40s. It’s supposed to be an excellent fictional recreation of the madness of an alcoholic’s life (if that’s what you’re looking for).

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Might not be what you’re looking for but some of Stephen King’s works have alcoholism at the core. The Shining and The Tommyknockers in particular.

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The Lost Weekend by Charles Jackson.
Cure: The Story of an Alcoholic by Carsbie Adams. (out of print)
The Slipway by Graham Billing.
Recovery by John Berryman, a semi-autobiographical novel.
Having Been There, a collection of short stories about alcoholism, edited by Allan Luks.
Leaving Las Vegas by John O’Brien.
Flight of the Loon: One Family’s Battle With Recovery by Robert F. Bollendorf and Robert Bollendors.

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Also added to that list:

St. Mary Blue by Barry Longyear, another semi-autobiographical novel.

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Rummies, by Peter Benchley.

Powerful, yet funny. It’s more about rehab, however, than about the marriage itself.

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What about “The Days of Wine and Roses”? Or is that not fictional?(I really don’t know if it is or not).

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I fixed the title.

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The Days of Wine and Roses is a movie, not a novel. It originated as a teleplay by J.P. Miller.

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***33 Snowfish * ** is an amazing, heartwrenching, ultimately uplifting novel, written for a juvenile audience. From Amazon:

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I thought I saw it as a novel at a local bookstore. I didn’t look that closely, so maybe it was a novelization, but because that, I assumed it was a novel before it was a movie.

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I don’t know that any of his books deal with alcoholism, but Chris Crutcher has written several Yound Adult novels that I felt described what keep people in abusive relationships well. (It should be noted that I have no personal experiance with abuse and very little with people who have been abused.)
Off the top of my head I would recommend Chinese Handcuffs or Whale Talk(the latter involves racial issues in some of the abusive relationships). His books are general written from the point of view of a 17 or 18 male student athlete with difficulties “playing nice with others”, in particular authority figures.