Needles: A Memoir

"As a young child, Andie Dominick was used to needles. Her older sister, Denise, was diabetic. Andie would retrieve her sister's syringes from the bin and play with them - using them as water pistols to shoot her brother, injecting her teddies, and taking the needles to school to impress her friends. Then, at the age of nine, the needles started to belong to her. Andie relied totally on Denise, who gave her the love, guidance and honesty necessary to adapt to an illness that she was still to young to understand. Twelve years later, after spending most of her life following in her sister's footsteps. Andie found Denise dead in their appartment.

Part autobiography, part tribute to an older sister, Needles, is a beautifully composed, moving journey through the life of a young diabetic woman, a journey that millions of other men, women and children make every day. "