Don M. reviewed The woman said yes: Encounters with life and death : memoirs on + 15 more book reviews
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Jessamyn West, in a memoir filled with deep resolve, celebrates the lives of three women - her strong Quaker mother, her beloved and courageous sister, and herself. From her memories of life as a young woman, recently married, struck with tuberculosis, and sent home from the twilight world of the sanitorium to die, to her recollections of the strength and affirmation lent to her during recovery by her mother, to the legacy of devotion to the sanctity of life she was able to draw on in the final months of her sister's illness, this deeply honest and profounding affecting memoir will remain a part of all who touch it.
