Living in the mountains of North Carolina, you get used to the Appalachian stories...most of which may sound pretty incredible, but have basis in facts.
A friend gave me a library book and said I should read it. It sat around a few days while I finished the one I was reading. (In my past I could read two or more books at a time...sigh, those days are gone!). My friend told me a bit of the plot, about 2 doctors in Fletcher, (another small town next to Asheville NC) and that it was non-fiction!
I was in conversation with a friend by texts the day I started reading it, so I told her about the doctor who had written it about another doctor of the same name, who killed his father...right here in the Asheville area (Fletcher to be exact.)
She wanted to know when it happened, since she vaguely remembered something on the news. I finally got to the part where 2008 newspaper publications were mentioned.
My friend who recommended it would ask me how far I was into it, whenever I saw her. When I was 1/3 through she said, just wait, it gets better. When I was 1/2 through she said, keep on reading!
Here's the flyleaf description.
Of course that's hard to read, so I hope you can enlarge it.
I binge read the last 1/3, dealing with having all kinds of efforts to help the sick doctor who was behind bars...would he be pardoned? Would he be taken to a hospital for his Huntington's disease?
And how about the problems that the author found regarding mental health treatment in the legal system...almost non-existent in prisons? I know my friend that recommended the book had been impacted by that almost as much as the other parts of this story.
Anyway, I finished the book, and the man was still in prison! The book's copyright was 2022, and has no conclusion. Now it's Aug. 2022. I wondered if anything in the news would cover this. So a DuckDuckGo search I went...and finally found this dated Jan. 18, 2022. I had to subscribe to the Asheville Citizen-Times for 6 months for $1, or I couldn't even read it. OK. We shall see if this daily paper is still interesting still in 6 months.
