#46
Title: When Breath Becomes Air
Author: Paul Kalanithi
Genre: Memoir
Category: Non-Fiction
Rating: B+
CDs/Hours: 5/5.5
Published: 2016
Dates: 7/30/16
– 8/4/16
This book is one of the best 75
books in the past 75 years and it was just published this year. It will be truly a classic when you consider
it’s about a neurosurgeon who discovers he has lung cancer. As the summary on the back of the box says – “One
day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling
to live.” Only 36 years old Kalanithi
had many questions he wanted answers to – “What make life worth living in the
face of death? What do you do when the
future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a
perpetual present? What does it mean to
have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away?” Together with his large, loving family
Kalanithi discovers the meaning of life.
He was a brilliant writer and surgeon and was transformed as he explored
literature in pursuit of what is important in life. I admire that he found what he was looking
for and reported in a sensitive, matter-of-fact way without sentimentality.
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