The Coffee Maker

James T. is the Coffee Maker. Sober more than half his life-30 years in a twelve-step program-and he's at odds with his belief. He knows that without recovery, he'd be dead, but he questions the process and the voices in the rooms that say, Do this, get that. He's seen the failures, the spiritual pride, the long-time members who have made themselves gods. How do you keep an open heart when it's torn from your chest over and over? Is there a limit to how many deaths you can witness before you go cold? How do you sit, day after day, listening to the lost tell the rooms-and themselves-that this time will be different? The Coffee Maker is the first serious novel to capture the sober community at its best and worst.