pThe Cardinal Club is heartwarming, gut-wrenching, funny, sad, unfailingly honest, and immensely readable. Suzanne Maggio's memoir of her relationship with her mother and her siblings is beautifully written and deeply moving. Filled with personal stories and universal themes, you will laugh and cry as you read. Highly recommended. - Sheldon Siegel. New York Times best selling author of the Mike DaleyRosie Fernandez novels.ppWhen Suzanne Maggio's vivid, demanding, and self-absorbed mother develops dementia, Suzanne is compelled to apply the wisdom she's acquired from decades of experience as a family therapist to her own family of origin. The Cardinal Club A Daughter's Journey to Acceptance is a memoir that will engage and move readers even as it invites them to ponder how they might attempt to come to terms with the unfinished business within their own families. - Jean Hegland, author of Into the Forest, Windfalls, The Life Within and Still Time.ppThis is an astounding book. I learned