Dancing in the Narrows

What happens when something unpredictable changes everything in your life? When her daughter is debilitated by chronic Lyme disease, single mother Anna Penenberg descends into the underworld of Lyme treatment, entering into a desperate, years-long struggle to save her daughter’s life.

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Dancing in the Narrows chronicles a mother and daughter’s multiyear journey through illness and trauma. At sixteen, Anna’s youngest daughter, Dana, is stricken with a mysterious and debilitating condition, eventually diagnosed as Lyme disease. Desperate to find a cure, the two women are thrust into the established medical world, then far beyond. Full of adventure, humor, and blind faith, Dancing in the Narrows is an inspiring story of self-discovery as a single mother fights to save the life of her child.