![]() ![]() Maybe they enter a luxurious retirement village or their children stuff them into a grim, state-run institution called, paradoxically, Close of Day Cottages.įriday, host Kerri Miller talked with Shriver about her intensely personal book. ![]() ![]() One spouse goes through with it, while the other doesn’t. But when they actually cross that threshold, the novel spins out a dozen alternative scenarios. That’s the premise of Lionel Shriver’s new novel “Should We Stay or Should We Go.” The Wilkinsons are in their early ‘50s when they firmly decide 80 is their drop-dead date. Once they both turn 80, they will take their own lives together - the better to spare themselves and their loved ones a humiliating and protracted decline.īut what really happens when they turn 80? After Kay Wilkinson watches her father devolve from a kind and intelligent man into a paranoid stranger due to Alzheimer’s disease, she and her husband make a pact. ![]()
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