The Returning by Ann Tatlock

I had a really hard time getting into this one.  The story of a family torn apart by alcoholism. Dad just returned from 5years in prison for manslaughter, the teen daughter is rebelling (how new), the youngest child doesn't recognize him, he falls off the wagon and has a fling with a woman from AA... I started reading it, then closed it and didn't finish it.  I enjoyed other works by Ann Tatlock, but not this one.