For Roger by Laura Drake
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For Roger is a thought-provoking and beautifully written story about love and the choices we make in the name of it. It's also a heavy, yet realistic, look into a bitter-sweet conversation about death and how we choose to depart. I've sat with this story for days after reading trying to arrange my thoughts. I think when you're a person midway through life you start to think in different terms of what love and compassion are. For Roger is a tough conversation. It brings up religion, individual state laws, political agendas, and life experiences. Ultimately, the ability to choose the most loving and human way to exit this world with dignity and grace.
Thank you, Laura, for sharing your work with the world. It's cherished and needed.
~Tanja
From the Cover...
Joan Merritt lives a charmed life. Happily married to her soulmate, she delights in following rules, her heart and her passion—advocating for women.
When her husband Roger is diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease, he asks Joan to help him end his life peacefully. But how can she miss one moment of their remaining time together? She refuses.
Roger takes his fate into his own hands, and on a Saturday morning bicycle ride, flies down a hill into oncoming traffic. He survives but has multiple fractures and a head injury that causes a crippling stroke.
His daughter, a devout preacher’s wife, comes to be by his side. Bee, only three years younger than Joan, has always resented her stepmother, and those feelings intensify as months drag on and Roger’s health and will to live deteriorate.
Joan faces an impossible dilemma: How much is she prepared to risk to grant her husband the peace he desperately wants and needs? When Roger dies, Bee has her own answer, and it leads straight to the police.
A story of love, truth and family that shines a light on the shadow between justice and mercy.
*Thank you to Laura Drake for sharing her work with me.
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