Here, at last, is a meditation book that shows why and, more importantly, how recovery works in blunt, no-nonsense language, written by a "hard case" who's been there -- and been there and been there.

In Yesterday's Tomorrow, author Barry L. speaks directly to the "hard cases" in recovery, many of whom have been through detox/treatment several times and need something besides another "Pollyanna, everything's-perfect-in-my-life" meditation book to move them to action.

Written by a man who carries the scars of experience, Yesterday's Tomorrow is laced with humor and sarcasm. The meditations are irreverent, iconclastic, at times even profane. But they have to be. "We 'hard cases' cringe at cliches," writes the author, "yet we still need to hear the basics of recovery. We need a tickle in the ribs, an occasional kick in the rear, a verbal two-by-four upside the head, and a little grit beneath the wheels to make it up that next hill."