This Is Not Where I End: A Memoir of Divorce Without a Drink
by Sonia Kahlon
Sonia Kahlon had built the life she was told to want: a thriving orthodontic practice, a marriage, a house that looked right from the outside. This Is Not Where I End is the story of what she found when she let go of both the drink and the marriage in the same season of her life—and had to learn who was left.
Raised in Toronto by Indian immigrant parents, Kahlon writes with unusual candour about the pressures of duty, achievement, and belonging, and about how quietly alcohol can thread itself through a life that appears to be working. Her memoir moves between childhood, career, marriage, and the early, unglamorous days of sobriety, resisting the tidy redemption arc for something more honest: rebuilding is slow, and being alone is not the same as being unfinished.