One Last Thing Before I Go — Jonathan Tropper

"MISTAKES HAVE BEEN MADE." Drew Silver has begun to accept that life isn't going to turn out as he expected. His fleeting fame as the drummer for a one-hitwonder rock band is nearly a decade behind him. His ex-wife is about to marry a terrific guy. And his Princeton-bound teenage daughter, Casey, has just confided in him that she's pregnant -- because Silver is the one she cares least about letting down.

So when Silver learns that he requires emergency life-saving heart surgery, he makes the radical decision to refuse the operation, choosing instead to use what time he has left to repair his relationship with Casey, become a better man, and live in the moment -- even if that moment isn't going to last very long. As his exasperated family looks on, Silver grapples with the ultimate question of whether his own life is worth saving.