The Thin Ledge

In this profoundly honest memoir, Daniel Shapiro shares the reality of the fifteen years he spent living and caring for his wife while also single handedly raising their three young children. During those years Shapiro searched for answers: “Can I find happiness like this? Will the rest of my life be this way?” and the moral struggle of how far to take the marital vows of “in sickness and in health.” 

A story of a man trying his best to retain some sense of normalcy while plunging through the darkest of tragedies, The Thin Ledge is about coping (often unsuccessfully) with the hopelessness of watching illness destroy a loved one.