Promise Me: How a Sister's Love Launched the Global Movement to End Breast Cancer

from ANNEELISE

Race for the Cure, pink ribbons in October and breast cancer awareness means so much more after reading this heart-wrenching, and informative book by Nancy G. Brinker. In the book, Brinker chronicles family stories, the infamous promise that she made to her dying sister, Susan G. Komen: to bring ...

from akreese

Promise Me is a touching story of love and friendship between sisters and how that love spurred Nancy on to do more to fight breast cancer. As I read about Nancy's upbringing I realized that her whole family was amazing, and loved how her mom encouraged service and volunteerism from a very young ...

from LivelyLady

I would not have chosen this had it not been a bookgroup choice. I loved the book. Nancy Brinker relates the growing up years of she and her sister, Suzy. Their life story, Suzy's subsequent losing battle with breast cancer, and then Nancy's life living up to her promise to do something to help c...

from rchmccaulley

wouldn't recommend to anyone

from Juva

Simultaneously heartbreaking and inspiring, this book tells the story of two sisters, a terrible disease and the creation of the Susan G. Komen Foundation. The narrative is full of powerful women with fantastic lives for whom cancer was just a footnote.