Still, I Cannot Save You by Kelly S Thompson

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Still, I Cannot Save You by Kelly S Thompson

Shortlisted for the 2024 Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award
Nominated for the Inaugural Reader's Choice Award

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 spi­ralled 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.

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ISBN 13 9780771051845
ISBN 10 0771051840
Title Still, I Cannot Save You
Author Kelly S Thompson
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.
Year published 2023-02-14
Number of pages 288
Prizes Short-listed for Evelyn Richardson Non-fiction Award 2024
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.