Stan Mack never expected a casual fling to become the love of his life. But Janet Bode, a fearless writer whose fourteen books gave young readers the truth about the hardest parts of growing up, was not someone you could easily walk away from. Their romance beat every odd stacked against it and lasted eighteen years. Then came the one thing love could not outrun: cancer.
In Janet & Me, Stan opens his sketchbook and his heart. With honesty that is sometimes funny, sometimes devastating, and always tender, he takes us through the shock of diagnosis, the long fight of treatment, and the hushed, luminous days at the end. What rises from these pages is a portrait of Janet facing death the way she faced everything, with nerve, wit, and irresistible charm, and of Stan, the partner who never let go of her hand.
This is a book for anyone who has ever loved deeply, anyone walking beside someone through serious illness and searching for comfort and practical wisdom, and anyone who believes a life should be lived all the way to its final page.
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