What I Would Pay: A Fight to Keep my Child Alive.

A parent's memoir of dealing with a child suffering from depression. The first time I put a dollar amount on my child's life, I hated myself for it. It was late, long after midnight, when the house had gone quiet except for the refrigerator humming in the kitchen and the occasional groan of old pipes in the walls. I was sitting at the table with unpaid bills spread in front of me, my glasses pushed up on my forehead, staring at a yellow legal pad where I had written one sentence over and over: