Nine Days

<p><strong>Winner of the 2023 NYC Big Book Award for the Death and Dying category</strong></p><p><br></p><p>One phone call upends Sara Austin's world.</p><p><br></p><p>Out of town for a company conference Sara gets a call that her mother is in the hospital. As her reluctant Health Care Proxy Sara relates with humor and alcohol how she and her siblings each with plenty of baggage maneuver the murky waters of dealing with an aging parent.</p><p><br></p><p>In Nine Days by Judy Lannon we learn to love and relate to Sara a product of divorce narcissism and alcoholism as she works through a lifetime of self-doubt and unworthiness to emerge as a stronger integrated woman.</p><p><br></p>