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Iris
Iris is losing her sight on a schedule her doctors can predict almost to the month. She has decided not to tell the people who'd try to make it meaningful.
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Iris knows, with unusual medical precision, how much longer she'll see clearly. The novel isn't interested in the diagnosis so much as her refusal to turn it into material — for her family, her church, or the memoir everyone keeps suggesting she write while she still can.
The book follows her last clear months through the people around her who each want her decline to mean something: a mother who wants it to produce reconciliation, a pastor who wants it to produce testimony, a former partner who wants it to produce one more chance. Iris wants none of these things. What she wants is smaller and harder to grant.
Iris doesn't build toward an uplifting final image. It builds toward Iris getting, or not getting, the one thing she actually asked for — and the last page declines to say which.