Six hundred and four thousand, eight hundred: the number of seconds in the last week of Flippa's life. The narrator's gran is called Flippa because for years
In Last Week, Canadian writer (and Whole Foods clerk) Bill Richardson briefly sketches a child’s last week with their grandmother and they know it’s the last week because Flippa, the grandmother in this story, has chosen to die via a scheduled, medically assisted suicide rather than suffer any longer from her terminal illness. Illustrated by Emilie Leduc, the short novel is going to present a where-do-I-shelve-it dilemma for many libraries, as so many of the most intriguing books do!