Susan Keller's Only Chance of Survival Rests in the Hands of Someone Who's Been Missing for 30 Years
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SAN RAFAEL, Calif. - Californer -- In her medical memoir "Blood Brother," releasing August 17, 2021 from TouchPoint Press, Susan Keller explores the miseries and miracles of lymphoma and the search for her estranged brother, the one person who can save her life.

"Blood Brother" is heavily focused on the Patient Journey, a term describing a patient's interaction with the healthcare system from diagnosis to recovery. Keller says that the Patient Journey is a critical topic in the medical community today adding that her memoir, "looks intimately, humorously, and brutally at issues such as physician-patient communication, trust, and medical errors; metrics on which healthcare providers are measured and are deeply concerned."

About the Book
As a happily married, professional woman, I had it all—until the devastating lymphoma. During moments when my survival was uncertain, I questioned the nature of death and fate and faith. After months of punishing chemotherapy, I still needed a Bone Marrow Transplant to eradicate the cancer. But the only person in the world who could donate and save my life was my brother, Johnny, who'd vanished thirty years before.

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"Blood Brother" is the story of curing an incurable cancer and of the enigmatic events that led to finding a man who never wanted to be found. It's a moving tale of forgiveness, rebuilding family, and of how to live fully when life hands you a profoundly generous second chance.

About the Author
With accolades in medical and scientific publishing, as well as literary awards, Susan Keller is uniquely positioned to write "Blood Brother," a cancer memoir that explores medicine, family, faith, and survivorship. Her scientific work garnered awards from the American Medical Writers Association. On the literary side, her poetry has taken first place in slams; she was a semi-finalist in the Atlantic Review Poetry Contest; and received an Honorable Mention in the Bay Area Poets Coalition National Contest. Her fiction and essays have also been published in anthologies and literary journals. This dual background makes the voice in "Blood Brother" lyric as well as credible.

About the Publisher
TouchPoint Press is a traditional publisher of fiction and nonfiction. Our staff is comprised of professionals whose collective experience in publishing, editing, journalism, design, and marketing set the stage behind our growing list of published titles. We are proud to work with talented authors and strive to be as innovative and energetic as possible from acquisitions to promotion before and after publication.