Marrow: Love, Loss, and What Matters Most, (Paperback)

from purpledog

Marrow is a memoir of the author's, Elizabeth Lesser, relationship with her younger sister Maggie, who is dying from cancer, during the last year of her life. It explores, in depth, the deep connections between siblings and how misconceptions and misunderstanding play a role in their relationship...

from CarrieWuj

This book was recommended to me by a dear friend who is a palliative care physician. It was recommended to her by a secular nun. These are the 2 threads that run consistently through this touching memoir: faith and medicine. Elizabeth Lesser's younger sister Maggie was diagnosed with bone marrow ...

from whitreidtan

Sisters are special people. They share your history. They are part of good memories and bad. You share both love and strife, oftentimes dating back years and years. I can't even begin to imagine what it would feel like to be told that not only does your sister have cancer but that without a bone ...