One True Thing
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: August 8, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780812976182
Subjects: Movie-TV Tie-In - General; Fiction; Fiction - General; Fiction / General; General; Euthanasia; Mothers and daughters; United States; Women prisoners
First sentence: I remember that the last completely normal day we ever had in our lives, my brothers and I, was an ordinary day much like this one, a muggy August-into-September weekday, the sky low and gray over Langhorne, clouds as flat as an old comforter hanging between the two slight ridges that edged the town.
Description: A New York psychiatrist recounts her mother's death for which she was arrested. At the time, Dr. Ellen Gulden was accused of killing her mother with an overdose of morphine, a charge in part based on a high school essay in which she advocated euthanasia. By the author of Object Lessons.