Still I Cannot Save You A Memoir Of Sisterhood Love And Letting Go

Description: With honesty love and humour in this moving memoir Kelly S. Thompson explores her relationship with her older sister Meghan. Tested by addiction abuse and illness the sisters relationship crumbles only to be rebuilt into an everlasting bond. Kelly Thompson and her older sister Meghan are proof that sisterhood doesn t always equate to friendship. Growing up within a military family the girls were close despite being temperamental opposites Kelly anxious and studious looked to her big sister for comfort and Meghan who battled kidney cancer as a toddler was gregarious and protective. But as she approached adulthood Meghan spi ralled into a cocaine and opioid addiction and Kelly's relationship with her sister was torn apart. Their paths diverge as they live their own lives and it is only when Meghan becomes a mother that she and Kelly tentatively face past hurts and reexamine what sisterhood really means. But their reunion is threatened when Meghan receives a shocking new diagnosis on a day that should be one for celebration. Now as the family reels at the prospect of the biggest loss imaginable Kelly and Meghan must share all that they can in the time that they have using their mutual sense of humour to chart a course through the darkest of days. At once funny and heartbreaking Still I Cannot Save You is a story about addiction abuse and tragedy but above all it is a powerful portrait of an enduring love between sisters.
Title: Still I Cannot Save You A Memoir Of Sisterhood Love And Letting Go
Barcode: 9780771051845
Publication Date: 2/14/2023