Spilled Coffee - Softcover

Roff, J.D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1972520016 ISBN 13: 9781972520017

Publisher: Liminal Ground Literary Press, 2026

Synopsis

There is an art to leaving rooms before you are asked to go. Joy Anderson has perfected it.

Her engineering husband has built the architecture of her remaining. Their marriage has become a masterwork of mutual protection...until it isn't.

Joy takes her levodopa late. Not because she forgets — because every pill is an admission, and some mornings she is not ready to make it. Paul has a system for everything: the medicine cabinet, the spice rack, the spreadsheet he built on a Saturday morning with columns for every contingency except the one that is actually coming. They have been married long enough to call this love.

Then Paul comes home with news that no spreadsheet can hold.

Roff writes about Parkinson's disease the way it is actually lived — in the double knot tied without comment, the coffee cup gripped with both hands, the morning that takes longer than it used to. Spilled Coffee finds its drama in the daily, unglamorous negotiations of a life being lived — with bitter coffee and a splash of dark humor.

Edition details

• Publisher: Liminal Ground Literary Press
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1972520016
• ISBN 13: 9781972520017
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 365