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About the Book

In his quest to understand the tragic death of his sister, the author invokes memory and imagination to reconstruct her lifelong struggle with a devastating skin disease, and with the alcohol and prescription drug addiction that accompanied the battle. Removed from her home and family at the age of nine, dead from an overdose of prescription drugs at forty-one, Ann Lourie Zipf comes alive for us in this remarkably candid work that is both biography and fiction.

Ann’s childhood yearning for home and the constant postponement of her return, her marriages, her children, the gnawing pain of her disease, and the effect of her addiction on her life and death are all vividly told in this moving story of one woman’s heroic life.

About the Author

Donold K. Lourie has worked in the legal, mining, banking, and computer businesses in New York City. He is the author of two previous novels and a memoir. He has five grown children and now resides with his wife on the island of Nantucket. [Credits for jacket, inside back flap of jacket ] Jacket art: by James Lourie Jacket design: Sheila Clifford