Authors to speak on ‘Graceful Woman Warrior’ May 13 at Lakeville Library

The Lakeville Public Library will host an evening with local author Laurie O’Neil, and her co-author and niece Marisa Alegria da Silva. The authors of “Graceful Woman Warrior” will be in the Great Ponds Gallery at the Lakeville Public Library on Monday, May 13 for a talk and book signing for “Graceful Woman Warrior.”

“Warrior” is a thought-provoking and moving posthumous memoir about mindfully living and dying with cancer. Forced to take an honest look at her own mortality after a Stage 4 metastatic breast cancer diagnosis, Terri Luanna da Silva started a blog about her journey.

Compelled to use her diagnosis as an opportunity to grow, learn and discover who she truly was, Terri Luanna’s story offers a life perspective hopeful in the face of interminable darkness.

Taken directly from her blog, Terri Luanna rides the cancer treatment roller coaster of hope to despair over and over again, struggling to balance her desire to treat her illness holistically with the brutality of traditional cancer treatment.

O’Neil and da Silva will have copies of Graceful Woman Warrior available for purchase and signing at the event.

This is a free program and is open to all ages. No registration is required.

For more information, contact Pamie Roy Tan at 508-947-9028 or email prtan@sailsinc.org.

This story appeared in the Middleboro Gazette on May 4th. The original article is here.