The originator of the ACoA "Laundry Lists" gives an insider's view of the early days of the ACoA movement. Tony A. discusses what it means to be an adult child of an alcoholic parent and what the self-help group can do for its members. Includes stories, history and helpful information for the ACoA.

“Scathing, upsetting and generous all at once, this novel, about millennial friends in pre-2008-crash San Francisco, thrums with Tulathimutte’s sly intelligence and unerring comic timing. . . . The warm flashes make the satire cut deeper.” —The New York Times, “The Funniest Novels Since Catch-22” "One of the really phenomenal novels I've read in the last decade." —Jonathan Franzen From a brilliant new literary talent comes a sweeping comic portrait of privilege, ambition, and friendship in millennial San Francisco. With the social acuity of Adelle Waldman and the murderous wit of Martin Amis, Tony Tulathimutte’s Private Citizens is a brainy, irreverent debut—This Side of Paradise for a new era. Capturing the anxious, self-aware mood of young college grads in the aughts, Private Citizens embraces the contradictions of our new century: call it a loving satire. A gleefully rude comedy of manners. Middlemarch for Millennials. The novel's four whip-smart narrators—idealistic Cory, Internet-lurking Will, awkward Henrik, and vicious Linda—are torn between fixing the world and cannibalizing it. In boisterous prose that ricochets between humor and pain, the four estranged friends stagger through the Bay Area’s maze of tech startups, protestors, gentrifiers, karaoke bars, house parties, and cultish self-help seminars, washing up in each other’s lives once again. A wise and searching depiction of a generation grappling with privilege and finding grace in failure, Private Citizens is as expansively intelligent as it is full of heart.

Emma is not having a very good start to her vacation. She's lost in love, lost her job and quickly feels like she's lost her mind as she finds herself getting caught up in the world of Internet chat sites. Toni isn't having the best week either. She's split up with her girlfriend, her cat has had a bad accident, and now she's caught a nasty virus that's left her housebound. Daily visits from a colleague have kept her in touch with the real world, but it's the Internet and Kayisha, the new chat site participant, who has really grabbed her attention. Then there's Cathy, Toni's employer. She's on cloud nine because her girlfriend Lisa has just officially moved in, and they're going to Italy for a month to celebrate their first anniversary. But will Toni's illness cut their plans short? And how will Lisa react to the news of Cathy's desire to have a child? Follow the lives of these four friends in a romantic tale that spans the globe and proves that one can cross the whole of cyberspace only to find love a few suburbs away.

When a gang shooting causes tensions to rise, the swoop-list girls must discover how to keep their cool and have faith in each other. Can they maintain their friendship under these stressful circumstances?

From the acclaimed author of Lies We Tell Ourselves comes an empowering YA novel of what happens when love may not be enough to conquer all. Toni and Gretchen are the couple everyone envied in high school. When they go off to different colleges—Toni to Harvard and Gretchen to NYU—they’re sure they’ll be fine. Where other long-distance relationships have fallen apart, theirs is bound to stay rock-solid. The reality of being apart, though, is very different than they expected. Toni, who identifies as genderqueer, meets a group of transgender upperclassmen and immediately finds a sense of belonging that has always been missing. Gretchen, meanwhile, struggles to remember who she is outside their relationship. As distance and Toni’s shifting gender identity begin to wear on their relationship, the couple must decide—have they grown apart for good, or is love enough to keep them together?

Blair had trusted Toni once. Her betrayal had almost cost him his life and had cost the lives of two of his friends. Toni is back, but with no memory of her past except for the strange disconnected images of a murder scene in her dreams. Believing that Toni has information that will be helpful in proving a case against Farrell Hagen, Toni?s lover and the elusive criminal responsible for the deaths of his friends, Blair agrees to keep Toni safe until her memory returns. What he doesn?t count on is falling in love with her.

Vowing never to marry, Toni Schmidt returns to Rockdale to help kids who face the same problems she encountered in her youth. But she's unprepared for her growing attraction to her mentor's brother, David Trent. David is doing his best to raise two children alone. Toni seems to be everything he wants in a wife, but she's holding a great deal of bitterness and anger about the past. Can David prove to Toni that true love overcomes every obstacle? Can Toni let go of the vow she clings to so carefully - the vow she believes will protect her from further pain?