Restore Me (Shatter Me, #4)

by Tahereh Mafi

“Bro, are you drunk?” “What?” I slap at the air. Laugh. “I don’t drink. My father is an alcoholic, didn’t you know? I don’t touch the stuff. No, wait”—I hold up a finger—“was an alcoholic. My father was an alcoholic. He’s dead now. Quite dead.”