When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi • 2016
Devastation Rating
grief memoir death medicine
Our Take
A neurosurgeon at thirty-six gets diagnosed with terminal cancer and writes about the transition from doctor to patient with devastating clarity. Kalanithi died before finishing the book. His wife wrote the epilogue. The incompleteness is the point.
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