Spilled Coffee (Paperback)

J.D. Roff

ISBN 10: 1972520016 / ISBN 13: 9781972520017

Published by Liminal Ground Literary Press, 2026

About this Item

Paperback. There is an art to leaving rooms before you are asked to go. Joy Anderson has perfected it. Her engineering husband has built the architecture of her remaining. Their marriage has become a masterwork of mutual protection.until it isn't. Joy takes her levodopa late. Not because she forgets - because every pill is an admission, and some mornings she is not ready to make it. Paul has a system for everything: the medicine cabinet, the spice rack, the spreadsheet he built on a Saturday morning with columns for every contingency except the one that is actually coming. They have been married long enough to call this love. Then Paul comes home with news that no spreadsheet can hold. Roff writes about Parkinson's disease the way it is actually lived - in the double knot tied without comment, the coffee cup gripped with both hands, the morning that takes longer than it used to. Spilled Coffee finds its drama in the daily, unglamorous negotiations of a life being lived - with bitter coffee and a splash of dark humor. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Spilled Coffee (Paperback)
• Publisher: Liminal Ground Literary Press
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1972520016
• ISBN 13: 9781972520017
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

There is an art to leaving rooms before you are asked to go.

Joy Anderson has spent years mastering it.

At sixty-two, she moves carefully through a life she and her husband have built together—one measured morning, one familiar ritual at a time. Parkinson's has changed the rhythm of her days, but not the shape of her marriage. Paul still labels the pantry. Joy still pretends she doesn't need help opening jars. Between them lies a language of small accommodations neither bothers to name.

Then Paul comes home with news that changes everything.

As the future they planned begins to unravel, Joy must confront the losses she can no longer laugh away and the truths she has spent years avoiding. Together, she and Paul discover that love is not found in grand gestures or heroic battles, but in the ordinary acts of remaining—through fear, through uncertainty, through the slow reshaping of a life.

Tender, wry, and deeply observant, Spilled Coffee is a novel about marriage, dignity, and the fragile courage required to keep choosing one another when nothing goes according to plan.

Roff writes about Parkinson's disease the way it is actually lived — in the double knot tied without comment, the coffee cup gripped with both hands, the morning that takes longer than it used to. Spilled Coffee finds its drama in the daily, unglamorous negotiations of a life being lived — with bitter coffee and a splash of dark humor.