What ties addiction and trauma together? What pain drives us to empty bottles and drugs?

Papa Was a Boy Once is a collection of personal narratives that explore pain, love, death, addiction, trauma, and familial relationships that crack and leave scars. In this book of healing a young man finds out what makes him who he is and shares his discoveries through tense passages, dark language, and an ambivalence that forces readers to ask what the meaning of right and wrong is.