The Years We Still Have (Paperback)

Paperback. THE YEARS WE STILL HAVEA Novel About Healthy Aging, Family, Independence, and the Choices That Matter At seventy-two, Alistair Penn has spent his whole life proving he needs no one. Then a ladder tips in his own backyard, and for two long minutes, lying in the wet grass with his shoulder throbbing, he learns something his pride never let him consider: that being found is not the same as being fine.What follows isn't a hospital drama. It's something closer to home - a father and son who love each other and still manage to fight about a doorbell camera; a daughter stretched between her own children and a father-in-law who no longer remembers her name; a widow two doors down who brings soup and asks harder questions than anyone in the family dares to; and an old friend who makes a choice about growing older that Alistair swears, at first, he'll never make himself.The Years We Still Have is a novel about what actually happens after the fall - the stubborn arguments, the small physical therapy victories, the family calls that go wrong before they go right, and the slow, unglamorous work of staying strong enough to stay yourself. It follows Alistair from a Portland flower bed to an Edinburgh hillside and back again, toward a truth every family eventually has to sit with: independence was never about refusing help. It was about staying enough of a person to choose it.Warm, honest, and free of easy answers, this is a story for anyone watching a parent grow older - or quietly wondering about their own years ahead - and looking for a book that treats aging as a chapter still being written, not an ending already decided. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…