Saving Charlotte

Saving Charlotte (W.W. Norton) is a vivid memoir about author Pia de Jong ‘66’s daughter’s battle with leukemia. De Jong and her husband made the unusual decision to forgo chemotherapy, waiting to see what would come. Now called “watchful waiting”, this type of care has become the standard protocol for Charlotte’s type of leukemia. De Jong is a bestselling novelist and regular contributor to The Washington Post.