On My Own at 107: Reflections on Life Without Bessie

“On My Own at 107” is Sarah “Sadie” Delaney’s tribute to Bessie, her beloved younger sister and century-long companion, who died on September 25, 1995, at age 104. Just four years earlier, Bessie and Sadie, along with former “New York Times” reporter Amy Hill Hearth, co-wrote the bestselling “Having Our Say,” which told the story of the sisters’ remarkable lives as witnesses to a century. Here, Sadie reflects on the first year following Bessie’s death. “Kirkus Reviews” called the book “a bracing reminder that life, a rare gift, must be savored in the living.”