Vanishing Shoals: a memoir

"Romero's writing perfectly captures the endless ebb and flow between grief and salvation. As a narrator, Romero expertly drops readers into the moment of devastation-a cancer diagnosis-then rewinds the clock to her childhood where we meet a girl gaining familiarity with loss, sickness, and the quivering thread that tethers us to mortality. "Vanishing Shoals" is the story of a hard-won victory, the struggles that predated, and the after-fight that never truly ends." --Samantha Otto Brown, Author of Sub Wife: A Memoir From the Homefront