David Garcia is an author, father, and person in long-term recovery whose work explores what happens after survival. His writing is grounded in lived experience and focuses on alcoholism, fatherhood, identity, accountability, and the difficult process of rebuilding a life with honesty and purpose.
His first memoir, Olive Oil, tells the story of addiction, collapse, and the moment his young daughter helped force him to confront the life he was destroying. It is a personal account of how love, consequence, and fatherhood became part of the path toward recovery.
His second memoir, Living After, examines what sobriety does not automatically fix. It follows the emotional reckoning, damaged relationships, amends, loneliness, and daily work required to build a meaningful life after the crisis has passed.
David writes for people in recovery, the families who love them, and anyone trying to become whole after losing the life they once knew. His work does not present recovery as a clean ending, but as a beginning that demands courage, responsibility, and continued growth.
Today, he continues to write about recovery, fatherhood, and the ordinary choices that shape a life over time.