The Last Will and Testament of Lemuel Higgins.

The Last Will and Testament of Lemuel Higgins

By Patrick James O'Connor

It is 1977, and in rural upstate New York, Lemuel Higgins has the world on a string: a promising career with the New York Yankees and a beautiful young wife, Sarah, with whom he's creating a new home and family. But despite two successful big-league starts and a "Lem Higgins Day" parade in his hometown of East Angler, Lem's world is shattered when the death of his estranged father sends him into a downward spiral of booze and brawling.

Five years later, Lemuel Higgins is a broken man. Abandoned by Sarah and their young son, Lem is wasting away from a new disease called AIDS. But his voice rings through his last will and testament, penned to make amends to the loving family he pushed away, as well as to describe his late attempts at redemption.

The Last Will and Testament of Lemuel Higgins revisits glimmers of true happiness mauled by self-destructive impulses, while...