For the Love of Sister...a Sibling's Story (Tate Publishing) Nancy Seriani�s account of caring for her younger sister as she slowly dies from cancer is as heart breaking as one can only imagine. But this fine little book goes beyond heart break and emerges as a story of endearing hope, unending love and inspiring spirituality.

Breast Cancer Breast Cancer, the words that bring a fear greater than any others to a woman, is the nemesis of Seriani�s young sister, Nena. Through Seriani�s utterly open and honest voice, we follow Nena and her adult siblings as she descends through the quagmire of medical treatment, maltreatment and finally, exquisite family care. No family skeleton remains hidden in Seriani�s forthright, loving tale of siblings rallying behind the illness of their beloved baby sister.

A Story of Love Despite the incredible aura of sadness which permeates this fine story, one cannot help but be swept up in the family�s struggle to mend past hurts and misunderstandings. Seriani skillfully pulls family members together in an effort to heal old wounds and to form a powerful bond of love to shower Nena with through her increasingly devastating fight with the cancer that cannot be irradiated, poisoned or cut from the young woman�s body.

Seriani deftly raises issues that Nena struggles with that all dying people must ultimately come to terms with, and that is the reality of their own mortality. Nena, the mother of young children, clings desperately to life and to hope, and the reader clings with her as Seriani, with almost inhuman strength, patiently and lovingly attends to her sister, day after day, relapse after relapse, never judgmental, but always supporting her sister in all her decisions regardless of Seriani�s private doubts and fears.

A Story of Spirituality Perhaps even more than the powerful story of family love that emerges as the central idea of the book, Seriani�s own indomitable spirituality and subsequent strength is the real inspirational message of this sisterly tale. Seriani unwittingly gives hope and counsel, not just to her family members, but to the reader as well. Her beliefs and her confidence in sharing these sometimes unorthodox values literally grabs one by the throat and shakes the nonsense, the doubt, the intellectual disdain from one�s heart. Seriani freely and unselfconsciously verbalizes the unusual beliefs that many feel drawn to and would like to espouse, but through fear, or cowardice, turn away from.

For the Love of Sister, a Sibling�s Story is not for the faint of heart. The crushing diagnosis and protocols are not for the weak, weary or easily frightened. Nevertheless, this book is well worth the tears and sorrow that most readers will experience while reading it, for through it all, Seriani tells her remarkably sad, yet uplifting story, with equanimity, resolve and infinite love. The reader has every opportunity here to emerge from this tale greatly and truly inspired.