Suzy McNamara
The Silkworm, The Magician and The Sister Tree: A Tale of Love and Loss
The Silkworm, The Magician and The Sister Tree: A Tale of Love and Loss
This memoir is a story of survival-survival of the loss of a husband and sister and survival of the heartbreak and hardship of caring for a spouse with early-onset Alzheimer’s.
This is also a love story between two kindred spirits who found each other despite vastly different backgrounds and two sisters who forged a bond amongst the chaos of their childhood and relied on that bond throughout lives steeped in tragedy and trauma.
I found ways to survive and my hope is that my memoir will accompany those on their own journey of grief and trauma towards their own path of survival.
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Meet Suzy McNamara
Author, “The Silkworm, The Magician and The Sister Tree; A Tale of Love and Loss” (coming May 2026).
This memoir focuses on my past year, a year marked by the loss of my sister to pulmonary disease and my husband to early-onset Alzheimer’s.
I explore themes of cocooning during five long years of caregiving for someone with Alzheimer’s, the magic of connection between a husband and wife and between two sisters, and survival from devastating loss by celebrating joy and hope, surrounding yourself with community grounded in unconditional love and fearless honesty and leaning into faith as a reminder that you are never alone.
