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Big Alcohol sells Americans a coveted lifestyle. But what are we really buying? Once an accountant and sales rep for a startup liquor brand, Eric Fry was a bootlegger in high school and a bar musician in college. Twenty years of easy access to free alcohol resulted in a lengthy addiction that could have robbed him of a meaningful life. Eric, though, fought back. In The BIG Liquor Lie, Eric shares an insider’s perspective of a trillion-dollar industry, revealing the lies he sold and the truths that helped him get—and stay—alcohol-free.

In this timely work of historical fiction by E. J. Wiens, the narrator, Peter Enns, a retired teacher in Manitoba, faces judgement as a war criminal. He relives his childhood and youth during the Stalinist terrors and escape following the Nazi occupation of his Mennonite village in Ukraine, then a refugee in Germany, an interlude in Paraguay, and finally three troubled decades as a father and teacher in Canada.