Stone Water- Barbara Snow Gilbert

Stone Water by Barbara Snow Gilbert is a young adult novel about a teenage boy, Grant, who grapples with his grandfather's request for assisted suicide after a stroke leaves him in a nursing home's terminal ward. The book explores the moral, ethical, and legal complexities of euthanasia through Grant's perspective, as he tries to reconcile his love for his grandfather with the difficult decision, complicated by his emotionally distant lawyer parents. The title refers to a story within the book about survival, and the narrative follows Grant's internal struggle as he weighs his grandfather's wishes against the value of life.