Zuza's Way : Her Memoir and Girl's Guide to Everything That Matters

She was fourteen. She lived with leukemia for eleven years. And she wanted to tell you everything.

Zuza spent eleven of her fourteen years proving that suffering and joy can exist side by side. Chemo and Taylor Swift concerts. Hospital beds and belly laughs. A body that kept breaking and a spirit that simply would not. Before she died on September 22, 2025, she had begun telling her story her way — honest, unfiltered, and full of life.

Part One of this book is that story, told in Zuza's own voice — built from her real videos, messages, and the conversations she had with the people she loved. The friendships that made her feel normal. The pain no medicine could reach. The uncle she lost and the questions his death left behind. The nights that were the best and worst of her life, sometimes at the same time.

Part Two is a mother's answer to the question Zuza left behind: a guide for girls and women on caring for the body, mind, and heart — from the integrative medicine practitioner who walked beside her daughter for eleven years and now walks with everyone else's.

This is not a cancer book. It is a book about being alive — written by a girl who understood that better than most of us ever will.

Zuza lived. This is her way.