North on 101

What struck me over and over again, as I read Anne Starr's memoir, is how much life there is contained in these absorbing pages. And no one is more alive than Mansfield who, even in his last days, keeps saying YES! North on 101 is a beautiful and compelling account of Mansfield's life as a brother and an artist, and of the devoted sister who responds to his summons.

-Margot Livesey

THE ROAD FROM BELHAVEN and THE BOY IN THE FIELD

A profound journey through a beloved brother's illness and death, told by a brilliant writer. I have never read such an acutely rendered and loving portrait, or such a generous and astute reckoning with love and loss. Starr's language is pitch-perfect and gorgeous. I will not forget these people, or this profoundly beautiful book.

-Meredith Hall

BENEFICENCE and WITHOUT A MAP

A sister's poignant memoir of an older brother: their childhood together, his move to sixties San Francisco-then, suddenly, a mid-life call to help him to navigate the ravages of cancer. An impressive account of life-and death.

-Eileen Christelow 

FIVE LITTLE MONKEYS series

With growing and pained self-awareness, Anne Starr chronicles the life, cancer diagnosis, and death of her beloved brother. Too often we turn away from death, but Starr turns toward the light. North on 101 is a beautiful, devastating, and heart-wrenching treatise on faith: in family, in friends, in life, in death.

-Catherine Parnell

THE KINGDOM OF HIS WILL

Paradoxically life-affirming, Anne Starr's memoir about caring for her slowly dying brother in the final months of his life is beautifully and sensitively written. She shares her own sense of inadequacy in the face of his imminent death as well as painting a colorful portrait of a man who had always been bursting with life. I came away from it touched by poignancy of witnessing the end of a life, especially a life lived so energetically and joyfully.

-Lawrence Kessenich

THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF DAISY MILLER

Anne Starr's love and admiration for her brother and the intensity of her desire to understand herself are palpable in her persistent questioning and analyzing of not just the situation at hand, but also as she investigates the rich bank of memories that surface as a result of the intimacy the situation demands.

-Mary Bonina

MY FATHER'S EYES: A MEMOIR