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Suzy McNamara discussing her new memoir The Silkworm, The Magician, and The Sister Tree: A Tale of Love and Loss
Featured Book
The Silkworm, The Magician, and The Sister Tree: A Tale of Love and Loss
This memoir is a story of survival-survival of the loss of a husband and sister and survival of the heartbreak and hardship of caring for a spouse with early-onset Alzheimer’s. This is also a love story between two kindred spirits who found each other despite vastly different backgrounds and two sisters who forged a bond amongst the chaos of their childhood and relied on that bond throughout lives steeped in tragedy and trauma. I found ways to survive and my hope is that my memoir will accompany those on their own journey of grief and trauma towards their own path of survival.
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About This Event
This memoir is a story of survival-survival of the loss of a husband and sister and survival of the heartbreak and hardship of caring for a spouse with early-onset Alzheimer’s.
This is also a love story between two kindred spirits who found each other despite vastly different backgrounds and two sisters who forged a bond amongst the chaos of their childhood and relied on that bond throughout lives steeped in tragedy and trauma.
I found ways to survive and my hope is that my memoir will accompany those on their own journey of grief and trauma towards their own path of survival.
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Featured Author
Suzy McNamara
Suzy McNamara is an author, poet, mother of four, fundraiser, lawyer, Secular Carmelite, and widow. In 2024, she lost her husband of 37 years, Bob McNamara, to Posterior Cortical Atrophy, an aggressive form of early-onset Alzheimer’s, after caring for him for five years in their home. Months before her husband died, her sister and best friend, Elizabeth Muslin, died from Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis.
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Lake Forest Bookstore
Now in the historic James Anderson building, the Lake Forest Book Store continues its 70-year relationship with the community and looks forward to serving the residents and visitors for years to come.
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