Coming to My Senses

A WWII-generation widow struggles to avoid the dreaded nursing home and befriends a teenage vagrant in Coming to My Senses, a first novel from Pam Rice. Addie Marsh suffers from macular degeneration, an eye disease that will eventually leave her blind, yet she'll do almost anything to persuade her son not to place her in an assisted living facility. She becomes close with the equally vulnerable Sybil, an abused runaway trying to evade her boyfriend, who desperately needs Addie's protection. Woven throughout this affecting tale are Addie's memories of raising her two sons, one of whom died in the Vietnam War.