“Intervention” was a great story to read. I wasn’t sure what to expect in the
beginning, except that it was going to be something about an intervention,
obviously. Marilyn obviously
didn’t want to have anything to do with the idea of her husband going to rehab
for being an alcoholic and when the family had “the talk” with Sid, she refused
to make eye contact and talk to him.
It couldn’t be her idea and Sid never questioned if she had ever thought
of the idea of him going to rehab.
I enjoyed the way the story was written. The past and present were intertwined
within the story and I think it flowed very nicely. I am often confused with
flashbacks and it sometimes begins to become confusing for me to follow but the
way Jill McCorkle wrote was appreciable.
She began the story with “The intervention is not Marilyn’s idea,” which
to me was a big point in the plot.
At the end when Sid is confronted by his family, Marilyn doesn’t want to
take any blame for the family deciding on addressing Sid’s problems.
*Never would I think I would know an alcoholic so close to
me. I never like the face the fact that this thing can do so much to a person
and alter their life and others lives in so many ways. It never seemed like he
had a problem until I began seeing him make a drink early in the afternoon and
continue pouring the alcohol way into the night. It went on and on for years
and it never got better. Family members confronted him, but nothing was
changing. He began to fight and rage towards his wife, something that would not
be pleasant to see. She was scared that the verbal abuse would turn into
physical abuse if he would drink too much. This scared me so much because it
was real. It wasn’t a story about a friend or someone across the street. It wasn’t
a story in a book. It was a story about my life, and it scared me.*
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