3. Think about it- alcohol is in the churches we go to, the restaurants we eat at, the grocery stores we shop at, the commercials we watch, and the magazines we flip through. For many, it may be the ice-breaker, the cultural icon, or the painkiller. Among many teens, it’s (illegally) the Friday night out. For Tyler Miller in the novel Twisted, a night out where alcohol was involved turned his whole life upside down.