Twelve Years & Eight Months takes the reader on a journey with the author who finds himself in the struggle of a life time after his wife is diagnosed with schizophrenia and refuse to comply with her medication and accept medical treatment. To protect his children and his sanity he decides to divorce her and becomes a single parent. In addition to taking care of his children, he has to maintain his job, deal with legal issues, fight with her family members, and pick up the pieces to put his life back together.