Twenty
"Along with naming me Marguerite after her favorite daisy, Mama
gave me three things: Red hair that hasn't faded. A love of nature.
And a belief that somewhere between heaven and earth there is
magic."
At age fifty-five, Meg's life is too filled with loss for her to remember what
magic feels like. All she has left is a yard brimming with plants that are
wilting in the scorching Iowa summer - and a bone-deep feeling that she's
through with living.
Meg has something else too: a bottle of mysterious pills, given to her years
ago by an empathetic doctor. He promised that they would offer her dying
mother a quick, painless end in exactly twenty days. Though her mother
never needed them, Meg does. But a strange thing happens after Meg
swallows the little green pearls...
Now that she's decided to leave this world, Meg is rediscovering the joy in it.
She sheds everything she no longer needs - possessions, regrets, guilt - and
reconnects with those she cares for. Finally confronting the depth of her grief,
she's learning that love runs deeper still. But is it too late to choose to stay?
About the author...
Debra Landwehr Engle is the bestselling author of The Only Little Prayer
You Need and Let Your Spirit Guides Speak. She is the co-founder of a
women's program of personal and spiritual growth, teaching classes in A
Course in Miracles, and offering courses and workshops worldwide. Debra
lives with her husband, Bob, in Madison County, Iowa, home of the famed
covered bridges. Twenty is her first novel.