Senior Center Book Club

Register online: https://berlinpeck.org/events/2024-12-senior-center-book-club/

Join us at the Senior Center for a discussion of Should We Stay or Should We Go? by Lionel Shriver. Contact the library for a copy of the book.

About the Book
Over ten years, Kay Wilkinson watched as Alzheimer’s steadily eroded her father into a paranoid lunatic. Both medical professionals, Kay and her husband Cyril have seen too many elderly patients in similar states of decay. Although healthy and vital in their early fifties, the couple fears what may lie ahead. Determined to die with dignity, Cyril makes a modest proposal: To spare themselves and their loved ones such a humiliating and protracted decline, they should agree to commit suicide together once they’ve both turned eighty. When their deal is sealed, the spouses are blithely looking forward to another three decades together. But then they turn eighty….