With advice to his unborn offspring, the author investigates Booze, what he describes as "an underappreciated and often misinterpreted tool for a life worth living." Through the tumultuous hollows of friendship, death, drugs, and self-pity, we see Booze's unique contribution to the makings of an individual. Written over the course of a decade, this rare glimpse at growth personified does what it can to rectify the claim that we teach our children too little in this world, mainly about ourselves, and we admit even less.