When Adrienne exits her bedroom, I gasp. She appears … so ethereal with her blue Monarch butterfly wings and blue bobbed wig Marilyn bought for her. I’m looking at a blue fairy from another world. Adrienne is also wearing her brand new blue tie-dyed shirt from Ross along with a blue scarf tied around her neck. On another person, so many shades of blue would be overwhelming, but Adrienne manages to pull off the monochromatic style.

Better Off Bald chronicles my sister Adrienne’s 147-day battle with liver cancer; the book also shows how I reared Adrienne from the time she was eight until she died at the age of fifteen. For more information about primary liver cancer, go to Blue Faery: The Adrienne Wilson Liver Cancer Association.